flight to space from what is known today as Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's (CCAFS) Launch Complex 5. In May 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard made the first U.S. Von Braun was tasked with creating several rockets during his time with NASA, including the famous Saturn V that eventually hefted astronauts into space for moon missions. Then in December 1959, the Department of Defense agreed to transfer to NASA a team of 5,000 civil servants led by Wernher Von Braun - the same man who successfully led Explorer 1's launch. Several of these later formed the basis of rocket stages for NASA human and satellite programs. "During this period, the Cape was transformed from scrubland into a major launch base," NASA wrote, which included Army tests of Redstones and Jupiters the Navy's Polaris missile, which launched from submarines and the Air Force's Thor, Atlas, Titan and Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles. NASA also acquired 150 Project Vanguard personnel, including an operations group at the Cape that was placed under the direction of the newly renamed Goddard Space Flight Center.
The new agency absorbed the former National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and took over several facilities across the country. (Image credit: SpaceX) Cape Canaveral Air Force Station 21, 2014, carrying supplies and experiments aboard a Dragon spacecraft to astronauts on the International Space Station. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida the night of Sept. Vanguard finally sent its satellite, Vanguard 1, into space on March 17, 1958. 31, 1958, on a modified Jupiter-C rocket called Juno 1. satellite, Explorer 1, into space on Jan. 4, 1957 the Vanguard team tried to follow up with a launch in December, but the rocket exploded during takeoff. The Soviet Union sent Sputnik aloft on Oct. Project Vanguard, as it was known, was given the job in part because it gave the opportunity to create a civilian rocket unaffiliated with previous armed service efforts. military services competed for the honor, which was eventually awarded to the Naval Research Laboratory. The United States planned to place a satellite into orbit in 1957-8, for International Geophysical Year - something the rival Soviet Union also planned to do. "By the mid-1950s, rocket technology in the United States had reached the stage where serious consideration was being given to proposals to launch Earth satellites," wrote NASA in a history of the Kennedy Space Center. A follow-up launch with Bumper 8 on July 23 went successfully. The first launch attempt took place on J– it was a Bumper 7 rocket, which didn't get off the ground due to salt-air corrosion. An old shack served as the first launch control block house. It posed a challenge for construction workers, who finished the first concrete pad on June 20, 1950, on top of a gravel layer they decided to put in while watching their trucks and jeeps sink into the sand. It also was heavily populated by local wildlife, including mosquitoes, alligators and rattlesnakes.
The area was then rather rustic, with a few beaches, houses and an inn, the authors added.
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