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Old 01-19-2009, 02:35 AM
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The Astro-1 launch picture is not from Lee Piester's yard. Centuri often used local public parks as locations for picture taking.

Bill Stine told me that this picture was taken in Lee Piester's back yard: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/80cen062.html

I have no information on the Astro-1 parachute pictures.

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Thank you. Lee had/has a nice back yard (a lot bigger than my old one in Miami!). I hope he and Betty write a book about their experiences starting and running the company.
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The Astro-1 launch picture is not from Lee Piester's yard. Centuri often used local public parks as locations for picture taking.

Bill Stine told me that this picture was taken in Lee Piester's back yard: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/80cen062.html

I have no information on the Astro-1 parachute pictures.

Bob


Phoenix? I take it he watered his lawn extensively.
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Old 01-19-2009, 01:40 PM
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I visited the Centuri plant in the mid-1970s.

I wrote a short article about it for LAUNCH magazine several years ago.

There was not much to see other than the Range Store.

Here are the pictures I took outside and inside of the facility.


Bob


Hey Bob

You know anything about the rocket on the right of the 3rd picture? Looks kind of like a extended Orion

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Hey Bob

You know anything about the rocket on the right of the 3rd picture? Looks kind of like a extended Orion

Bruce


It's definitely a kitbash between an Orion and a Sky Lab kit.

http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...75/75cen12.html
http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...i75/75cen8.html

I'm not even sure I'd call it a kitbash. They took the nosecone off a complete Orion and set the complete Sky Lab kit on it.
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