Cape Canaveral, 1998

At Cape Canaveral lie the remnants of the race to the moon... The concrete launch pads, bunkers and steel gantries from the Mercury, Apollo and Gemini missions. Since right on the Atlantic Ocean the elements continually take their toll, and many of the steel structures have been torn down leaving only concrete.

I shot several panoramas at Cape Canaveral and have included two here, one of the launch stand at Complex 34 where the 3 astronauts died in the Apollo 1 fire and Complex 19 where the Gemini missions were launched. Each is about 500k, so please be patient while they load. I'll be adding more panoramas of the interiors as well as traditional photographs of her shortly.

I've discovered that these 360 degree panoramas give an amazing sense of space that you can't get with traditional photography. They capture much more of what it's like to actually explore modern ruins. They are composed of a dozen separate photographs taken with a 20mm lens and stitched together with Apple's Quicktime Authoring studio. I've taken others in the previous year and they can be found in other sections of this website - the Airplane Graveyard, the S.S. United States, the New York State Pavilion from the 1964/65 World's Fair and a U-boat bunker in Germany.