[Jims5543]

I was too young to remember this event. I was lucky enough many years later to stand on both Pad 39A and Pad 39B, I was working for a company that was supporting NASA directly as well as Brown & Root who was a large contractor out at Kennedy.

We were called on multiple times to provide services to them both. We had to go through a background check and was escorted the entire time we were on the launch pads. It was in the 90's and I can remember it like yesterday. It was extremely impressive.

This was during the Space Shuttle years with NASA in pretty full swing at the time.

It is sad to see the decline, even sadder is to drive through Titusville, Florida, it has turned into a Ghost town. I hear it is finally starting to make a comeback as of late. 6 years ago it was a depressing town to drive through.