When I first moved away from Minnesota to California, joining Exile cycles and working on Discovery channel shows, I was a bit taken back and sometimes a little overwhelmed by the work load of on and off camera work.
I needed a place to hide....
I happened to run in to someone that told me about a very special place located in Los Angeles that would cheer me up and leave my brain twisted, the true location is low key and I don't know how much I should share but here is quick peek at one of the most happy places in the world for me!
My buddy Art, who use to work here moving stuff around, now is on a Navy ship repairing jets and moving aerospace parts around just like when he worked here ( there you go Art, theres your fame for the month)
Remember I am an AeroSpace Welder and my love for NASA is very strong so this place is very special to me.....
This place is where NASA laid to rest so of its most well engineered " Space Race " projects of the late 1950 and 1960s.
You could call it a graveyard of Mercury, Apollo and Saturn rocket mission projects.
It is one of the only places that you can walk thru and NOT know what it does or what its used for.
I needed a place to hide....
I happened to run in to someone that told me about a very special place located in Los Angeles that would cheer me up and leave my brain twisted, the true location is low key and I don't know how much I should share but here is quick peek at one of the most happy places in the world for me!
My buddy Art, who use to work here moving stuff around, now is on a Navy ship repairing jets and moving aerospace parts around just like when he worked here ( there you go Art, theres your fame for the month)
Remember I am an AeroSpace Welder and my love for NASA is very strong so this place is very special to me.....
This place is where NASA laid to rest so of its most well engineered " Space Race " projects of the late 1950 and 1960s.
You could call it a graveyard of Mercury, Apollo and Saturn rocket mission projects.
It is one of the only places that you can walk thru and NOT know what it does or what its used for.
There is about 40 rows in the building and two floors of just NASA stuff
over 20,000 feet of stuff!
Tanks and tanks and tanks
More tanks, complete rows of tanks
Titanium Tanks designed for fuel for NASA and the X projects
Rocketdyne J2 rocket used for the Saturn rocket and more Titanium tanks
One of the coolest things here!!
A back up rocket for the X-15 test projects
This little beast pushed the plane to set the record of mach 6.7 - the fastest thing on earth
Its only a dream to have it sitting in my living room
These are some of the tanks and parts used for the Apollo Command Module
This is a close up of the crazy Titanium welding that they did in the early 1960s
Remember these guys wrote the book on Titanium welding, it was all trial and error
and what a project to learn on.....
Just looking at some of the prototypes they built makes my jaw drop
these guys did it all without computers and without crazy machines.
Nothing but a good set of hands and a smile
Control boards from the research centers and back up rockets
I worked at exile all weekend with Blake ( aka - random ), can't tell you what I am working on with these NASA tanks from 1958s Saturn project, but I can say its going to make a nice hot cup of wake me up in the morning...
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