Playback Head Selector Equipment at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 Blockhouse

Playback Head Selector Equipment at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 Blockhouse

Playback Head Selector Equipment at Launch Complex 14

Cape Canaveral (Fla.)

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Fla.)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)

NASA

Project Mercury (U.S.)

Electronic equipment at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 Blockhouse, mounted in racks similar to the way modern computer servers are, was used to monitor the rocket during Project Mercury launches. Instead of digital readouts and big screen displays, this equipment used various gauges to display readings and dials and buttons to adjust the equipment and the rocket. Ampex made magnetic tape drives and recorders, which were used to record data and/or audio.

Original black and white photographic print: Private Collection of Dr. Calvin D. Fowler.

ca. 1962

Fowler, Calvin D.

Digital reproduction of original black and white photographic print.

Dr. Calvin Fowler Collection, Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 Blockhouse, Cape Canaveral, Florida

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History Teacher

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Copyright to this resource is held by Dr. Calvin D. Fowler and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Michlowitz, Robert

Cepero, Laura

"Project Mercury Overview." John F. Kennedy Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mercury-overview.htm.

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AMPEX

PLAYBACK HEAD SELECTOR