Cape Canaveral - 3D Models
Browse the 3D Collections for the Cape Canaveral Space History Collection below.
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A Child's Marble Grave Marker
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
This ornate marble headstone is for 13-week-old Verginia W. Quarterman who is buried alongside her grandparents’ at the Quarterman South Cemetery (8BR2356). This small family cemetery is one of eight historic settlement burial grounds on what is today the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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Apollo LC 34 Launch Pad Environmental Bldg.
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
This is a portion of the building relating to the LC34 pad structure, and consists of smoothed cement finished area with one standing wall and three smaller, curb-like walls. Laser scanned with phase shift scanner, and also documented with imagery and GPS survey. See also: https://vimeo.com/173126179.
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Area 55 Administrative Building
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
The Area 55 Administration Building is a now former facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A 3D laser scanning survey of the entire complex was performed prior to changes of architectural impact at this site.
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Area 55 Delta 2nd Stage Checkout
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
This ideal model derived from 3D laser scan data is of Facility 56636 in Area 55, the Delta 2nd Stage Checkout Bldg. (Florida Master Site File #BR3030). This structure is no longer extant.
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Ballistic Missile Part
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
Historic ballistic missile part recovered from archaeological context at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Stamped numbers of the piece, although heavily worn, are evident from scanning and imaging- revealed as 5478120 E. Additionally, there are QA/QC stamps on the piece indicative of inspections that include: S 215 and 272 and 187 numbers. The piece is possibly from a Matador intermediate range cruise missile (IRCM) that was used at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Note the Lighthouse at Cape Canaveral shown in relation to the launch in this image.
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Beehive Blockhouse at Launch Complex 31 and 32
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
There are two of these unique beehive structures on a dual historic launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Brevard County, Florida. These blockhouses served as a central command for the launching of ICBMs- Minuteman missiles-during the 1960s Cold War Era. The underground missile silos at the complexes contains the buried debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Today LC 31 and LC32 are abandoned, and facing impacts from climate and weathering, invasive plant exotics, and the ravages of time. The interiors of the structures pose an asbestos hazard. Exteriors were documented using terrestrial laser scanning while the insides were CAD modeled based on existing as-built paper designs converted to 3D.
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Biface Stone Tool
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
Artifact recovered from the USF Cape Canaveral Air Force Station cultural resource survey of land management units.
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Blockhouse at Historic Launch Complex 26
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
The Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information are using terrestrial LiDAR to document historic launch complexes at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, including the significant site of the LC 26 blockhouse. Constructed for the Redstone and Jupiter missile programs in 1956-1957, the blockhouse was only about 400 feet from the launch pads and had to be explosion proof. The walls of the blockhouse are two-feet thick, and the dome-shaped roof is from five-feet to nearly eight-feet thick. Further explosion proofing measures at the site include windows that are about one foot thick and blast doors that are made with heavy armor-like plating.
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Blockhouse at Launch Complex 14
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
Launch Complex 14 was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1984. In 1988, the blockhouse was restored and converted to meeting space to commemorate the 35th Anniversary of the final Mercury flight. Historically, the Atlas research and development testing program began at this site in 1957, and the US Air Force would conduct Atlas test launches at Complexes 11, 12, 13, and 14 through 1962. The site is more famously associated with the four crewed Atlas Mercury launches including Friendship 7, where John Glenn became the first American to successfully accomplish a human orbital flight mission. Glenn circled the earth three times aboard Mercury/Atlas (MA-6) on February 20, 1962. Other notable crewed Project Mercury missions from LC14 were the Aurora 7, with Scott Carpenter in 1962, the Sigma 7 with Walter M. Schirra, Jr. in 1962, and the Faith 7 with Gordon Cooper’s 22-orbit flight, in 1963.
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Blockhouse at Launch Complex 19
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
This launch complex was used by NASA for all of the Gemini manned spaceflights, as well as the unmanned Titan I and Titan II missiles. It was built in 1959 by the US Army Corp of Engineers. The structure is made of reinforced concrete, with the site including a ready room, launch ramp and test stand along with the impressive the launch control center (Blockhouse). This structure was documented using a phase shift laser scanner as well as photogrammetry, imaging, and GPS survey. Listed as 8BR2261 with the Florida Master Site File. See our docu-short on our 3D project: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/365904796
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Blockhouse at Launch Complex 1 and 2
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
Blockhouses 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Constructed in the early 1950s to oversee Snark winged missile program activities, this blockhouse had four-inch thick, tempered laminated glass and was connected to the pads via underground tunnels. Visual observations of the pads were made through a pair of mirrors that reflected images of the launch pads through the tempered glass windows and downward to observers within the blockhouse. An observation deck was located on the roof, and a two-story tower was added at the rear to assist in the tethered aerostat radar program . The building was abandoned during the mid-1990s, and we are using 3D laser scanning and GIS strategies to map and conduct archaeological heritage surveys at the site.
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Blockhouse at Launch Complex 3 and 4
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
The complex was constructed between 1950 and 1953, and was used throughout the 1950s including for the Bumper, Matador, Bomarc, Lark, X-17, Polaris FTV, and Redstone missile programs. Launch Complex 3 and 4 was considered to be technologically advanced for its time, and the facilities would later be modified for medical support area for the Mercury Project. The historic launch complexes at Cape Canaveral are being recorded using 3D and imaging technologies and a GIS survey approach as part of a historic preservation and documentation program partnership with University of South Florida researchers and the US Space Force.
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Blockhouse at Launch Complex 9-10
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
Constructed between 1953 and 1957, Launch Complex 9-10 at CCSFS was designed to support the Air Force’s Navaho winged intercontinental missile program. Although the Navaho program was cancelled soon after completion of the complex, test flights continued until November 1958. The complex was deactivated in 1959. Several of the facilities at the launch complex were reused for the Minuteman missile program- part of Launch Complex 31-32.
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Bomarc Building, Cape Canaveral
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
The Air Force first launched the Bomarc missile from Complex 4 on September 10, 1952. The defensive winged missile was designed to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft. The building was uniquely constructed to launch the Bomarc missile with a roof that could split right and left down the middle, allowing the missile to be raised prior to a quick launch. Today, remnants of rockets and control panels are located inside the otherwise abandoned historic building. Using laser scanning and historic CAD drawings we have recreated the floor plan.
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Burnham Family Cemetery
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
The cemetery is named after Captain Mills Olcott Burnham, who became the keeper of the lighthouse in 1853 at Cape Canaveral and was the first Anglo-American settler to the area. There are eight burials in this cemetery, with these within a unique walled plot belonging to Thomas Thompson of Maryland who was a First Sergeant in the US Army and later the postmaster for the Cape Canaveral post office. His wife, Henrietta, was the eldest daughter of Henry and Frances Wilson. Henry was Cape Canaveral’s first postmaster in 1883 and served 34 years at this position. Their graves have full ledger coping. Henrietta’s grave was historically marked with a brick headstone which is now largely broken and removed and is replaced with a modern head marker.
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Burnham Family Cemetery in 3D
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
Annotated cemetery 3D surface terrain map produced from terrestrial laser scanning at an early 19th and 20th Century settlement family cemetery at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This model allows researchers to look for subtle terrain features and elevation differences and provides millimetric spatial control to link surface and subsurface (geophysical) mapping information.
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Cape Canaveral Lighthouse 3D Map
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
This pointcloud is part of a 3D heritage preservation and documentation survey of the Cape Canaveral Light Station. The survey included the interior structural, CAD and BIM modeling, condition assessment, and the development of a virtual tour including complete views from the lighthouse interior and of the lighthouse museum. TOUR LINK: https://arcweb.forest.usf.edu/dhhc/CCAFS/VirtualTour/LighthouseMuseum/. The iron lighthouse was originally constructed at Cape Canaveral in 1868, replacing a nearby brick tower c. 1848 that was located on the east side of the Cape overlooking the beach. Heavy erosion led to the construction of the iron lighthouse and to the loss of the brick tower. The structure was dismantled and moved in 1893 to its present location 1 mile interior on today’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and Sectional View
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
This pointcloud is part of a 3D heritage preservation and documentation survey of the Cape Canaveral Light station (lighthouse, oil house, and replica Keeper Dwelling and Keeper Store Room. Shown beside the full pointcloud of the iron structure is a sectional view to visualize the interior. TOUR LINK: https://arcweb.forest.usf.edu/dhhc/CCAFS/VirtualTour/LighthouseMuseum/. The iron lighthouse was originally constructed at Cape Canaveral in 1868, replacing a nearby brick tower c. 1848 that was located on the east side of the Cape overlooking the beach. Heavy erosion led to the construction of the iron lighthouse and to the loss of the brick tower. The structure was dismantled and moved in 1893 to its present location 1 mile interior on today’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Memorial
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
Historical monument and plaque built using bricks from the original lighthouse structure from c.1848. A brick structure comprised the original tower which stood 65 ft. tall - not high enough to provide adequate light and warning to ships. A taller, iron structure was built next to it in 1868. In 1893 the iron tower began to be disassembled and the brick tower was destroyed with materials to be reused in the reconstruction and moving of the iron tower to a new (present-day) location - 1 mile inland and better protected from beach erosion. Our archaeological work re-discovered the ruins of the original brick tower along the Canaveral coastal shore 3D Model. This memorial, located at the present-day lighthouse site, was made by an Eagle Scout from a local scout troop using bricks collected from the original lighthouse. A similar memorial is found at the old tower location.
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Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Sectional Analysis
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
Section through the living floors of the lighthouse structure at Cape Canaveral, using terrestrial laser scanning data (mesh model) to show wall thickness, floors and foundation, and wall partition areas. Part of a 3D laser scanning and imaging survey of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse for Space Launch Delta 45.
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Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Storeroom
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
This is a replica structure constructed in similar architectural style as 19th Century storehouse structures for the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse. Today the site functions as bathroom facilities and storage at the site. The building exterior was documented with terrestrial laser scanning as part of a digital documentation survey of the Cape Canaveral Light Station.
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Cape Canaveral Light Station Oil House
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
A small brick building with metal roof located in front of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse, functions as the oil house for the historic station. The iron lighthouse from 1868 at Cape Canveral was moved and reconstructed at the present location in 1894, and the oil house was part of the original design at the present location. The structure held kerosene brought to the site via boat every six months. Only small amounts of kerosene were brought into the lighthouse to fuel the Fresnel lens operation. Remaining fuel was held in the conveniently close oil house until needed. In 1931, the oil house was converted to accommodate fuel tanks installed for generator use. Electricity to the site in the 1950s led to the removal of the tanks and generator, and today the building is used for storage. A 1970s storm blew the roof from the structure and in 2003 the oil house was restored to its original design. A brick surround in the shape of a boat’s bow was installed in the 20th Century. 3D point cloud from laser scanning.
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Cape Fish Company Burial Marker
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
An upright concrete slab and foot stone marker are found within a small chain-link fence area on present day Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The burial is thought to represent an interment associated with the Cape Fish Company. The Cape Fish Company was a small fishing village occupied from the late 19th Century - mid 20th Century. For most of this time, the site functioned as a shark processing plant and fishing co-op where workers were seasonal during fish harvest periods.
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Cape Road Cemetery Annotated Tour
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information
There are 21 marked burials at the Cape Road Cemetery that can generally be divided into three families: the Jeffords, Jandreau, and Whidden families. These families include pioneering settlers of the historic coastal communities that are now part of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A number of these individuals were employed as fishermen and lighthouse keepers, with the first interment at the site being a one-year-old infant buried in 1894. Graves are marked with a mix of historic and modern grave markers and headstones. Of note here are full ledger and above-ground coping style grave markers in this cemetery.