Cape Kennedy Space Centre, August 18, 1994.
Abortive launch of STS-68, a mission to use synthetic apperture radar to map the Earth.
The puff of steam, centre left, was caused by firing of the Space Shuttle's main engines.
The flight was aborted, moments before the SRB's (Solid Rocket Boosters) were lit - the main engines had overheated.
I travelled over 10,000 miles for this photograph, and it was a fizzer.
The large structure centre right is the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building).
The buidling is so large that until fans were fitted in its roof,
condensation formed clouds in the upper part of building, and it used to rain inside!
The pens in the foreground house dugong (sea cows) and open water between the viewer and the launch site
is infested with alligators - a very effective security measure!
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