>>3185653Aerojet, one of the very few pictures of me that exists. My SJW albino gf at the time shot this lol
Aerojet cliffnotes, greentext edition. You should read up on the whole thing though when you get some time.
>NASA wants to go to the moon, but liquid fueled rockets at the time are dangerous >Puts up contract for a motor to lift the upcoming Saturn / Apollo program into space>Aerojet puts a bid in for a solid rocket motor>With 4.5 million pounds of thrust and vectored thrust in the 2nd and 3rd designs>In 1965>sets up shop in the Everglades for cheap, to be near Cape Canaveral, since the motors are too big they can barge them up the coast to CC>Designs the world's largest solid rocket motor, tests it successfully 3 times>Digs a silo in the Everglades to test it>Loses the contract anyway to Rocketdyne>Abandons the facility and the 3rd motor a few years laterIt used to be a lot better shape but scrappers found it sometime around 2006 or 2007 and stripped the place clean unfortunately. The rocket is still down there. It's a large part of the space program that has been neglected and South Florida Water Management District put concrete barriers over the rocket to keep urbex kids out in sue-happy South Florida. A damn shame.
