About 900,000 pounds each of LOX (liquid oxygen) & hydrogen were stored at launch areas during the Space Shuttle program. …

To create the unbalanced force to propel Space Shuttle missions away from Earth, three main engines worked together to create almost 1.2 million pounds of thrust and two solid rocket boosters created a total of 6,600,000 pounds of thrust. The total thrust at launch, on this pad surface, was about 7.8 million pounds.

"This is the spot where humans are going to travel to Mars from!" …

Once at the launch pad, the MLP (Mobile Launch Platform) is placed on a supportive structure of six steel pedestals that are 22 ft (6.7 m) tall, and four extensible columns.

When we speak of Space, it's usually from the perspective of a place that we go to, an outer place - separate from and beyond ours and us. ...

The air was thick with ocean salt and the scent of a fusion of life decomposing and regenerating in the brackish marshes, salt water estuaries, and hardwood hammocks in and around the space center. My guide and I were on a mission, a quest for the Moon ...

The Sky Calls To Us, Photographs of The John F. Kennedy Space Center- Log Book Entry, October 31, 2015-Flight: #AV-060; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41; Configuration: Atlas V 401. 

...Yet, it is in the deep darkness of night that the blue veil is lifted from above us and we are able to see beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere to detect with our eyes, something of our place in the cosmos.

“We have to go to space!”...