Aerospace Legacy Foundation
Time Traveler Galleries
From Orange Trees to Space!
In Downey California ...it began at Hughan's Ranch...
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The land was largely orange groves and castor beans with a few farm structures.
Centered at the intersection of Alameda St. and Cerritos Ave.(Lakewood Blvd.). Alameda School top.
The land was largely orange groves and castor beans with a few farm structures.
The Legacy- Begins
Space & Information Systems Division,in Downey, future home of the Apollo.
North American Aviation- Missiles
President Kennedy in 1961 asks for "a new American enterprise, that of placing a man on the moon and returning him before the decade is out."
The Downey missile operation, now advertising itself as the Space & Information Systems Division, proposed and was accepted as a qualified bidder for the Saturn S-II launch vehicle system, the massive mid-stage for a family of NASA super booster concepts for launching multi-ton payloads into space.
Photograph taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its translunar coast toward the moon. Apollo 11 was already 98,000 nautical miles from Earth made on July 17th, 1969
President Kennedy in 1961 asks for "a new American enterprise, that of placing a man on the moon and returning him before the decade is out."
Space Race- Apollo
