Cape Canaveral Lighthouse – Throwback Thursday (TBT) – May 31st, 2018

Weather in Florida in the summer always brings afternoon thunderstorms and on many occasions they would hit The Cape as I was leaving work. On this particular late May afternoon I was able to escape the office just as the storm was approaching the Space Center.

I quickly detoured out to the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and captured the lighthouse as the storm approached.

Bonus Photos of Launch Complex 9-10 and Launch Complex 31 and 32 as the storm approached.

My route home on The Cape takes me by several other launch complexes so I was able to stop and get a few photo\’s of these two launch complexes.

Launch complexes 9 and 10 were built to support the Navaho winged intercontinental missile program and utilized the same blockhouse; the two pads featured different launching methods.

Launch Complex 9

Launch Complex 31 and 32

And Launch Complex 31 and 32 are just across the street from Launch Complex 9 and 10. This launch complex was built for the Minuteman rocket and contain silos that were about 90 feet deep with a large equipment room under the Pad next to each silo.

Wreckage and boxes of Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51L) debris are buried in silos 31B and 32B.

Below are storm clouds over the Space Center.