{"id":1880,"date":"2025-06-12T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caperockets.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2025-06-12T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:31:24","slug":"cape-canaveral-lighthouse-throwback-thursday-tbt-may-31st-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caperockets.com\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"Cape Canaveral Lighthouse – Throwback Thursday (TBT) – May 31st, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I quickly detoured out to the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and captured the lighthouse as the storm approached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonus Photos of Launch Complex 9-10 and Launch Complex 31 and 32 as the storm approached.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launch Complex 9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Launch Complex 9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Launch Complex 31 and 32<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wreckage and boxes of Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51L) debris are buried in silos 31B and 32B. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Launch Complex 31 and 32<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Launch Complex 31 and 32<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Below are storm clouds over the Space Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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