John F. Kennedy Space Center. NASA’s thrust-augmented Delta (TAD) lifts off pad 17A at Cape Kennedy, Florida carrying the Syncom Satellite into a 22,300 mile orbit above the Earth. Unused, undated NASA postcard, c1964.

Syncom 3 was the first geostationary communication satellite, launched on August 19, 1964 with the Delta D #25 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral. The satellite, in orbit near the International Date Line, had the addition of a wideband channel for television and was used to telecast the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo to the United States. Delta D, aka Thrust Augmented Delta was a Delta C rocket with the Thrust Augmented Thor core plus three Castor 1 boosters. (Wikipedia)

An aerial view of the rocket booster-mounted Columbia space shuttle being moved by a mobile launcher platform. Photo: AFSC. Location: Cape Canaveral. Date:11/23/1981.

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[editor’s note: I think the date given above is inaccurate, STS-1 was launched on April 12, 1981, STS-2 was launched on Nov. 12, 1981, correct me if I am wrong]

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Apollo 15 Rollout, 05/11/1971.

The 363-foot tall Apollo Saturn V space vehicle is leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Florida. The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower are atop a crawler-transporter. The “stack” and the VAB are reflected in the turning basin.