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Space View Park, Titusville, Florida
Situated on Florida’s east coast, 15 miles from the Cape Canaveral launch pads, is the small town of Titusville. Titusville sits on the Indian River and has a lovely park on its waterfront called “Space View Park”, wherein we stopped while making our way to the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge for some bird-watching. The park is a lovely shaded spot with some wonderful views towards the Kennedy Space Center and, to our delight, had a great monument to the earliest American astronauts, the Project Mercury team.
I was a schoolboy during the great era of space travel that President Kennedy’s challenge spawned in the 1960s. “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do other things not …
“Pic of the Week”, August 30, 2013. Saturn V Rocket, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida
I sometimes forget that most people alive today were not part of the exciting age of space exploration in the 1960s and early 1970s. While I was just a boy at the time, I’m glad I experienced this truly fun and historic decade, especially as a fan of science fiction. The stuff that we’d read about for years was now happening in real life — almost like a dream coming true! People were traveling into space, actually going to the moon and, perhaps more remarkably, safely returning to Earth. I vividly recall watching the Apollo 11 lunar landing and seeing the grainy footage of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin bouncing around in the low gravity of the moon — the …
