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The largest solid fuel rocket still lies beneath Florida's moon rocket ghost town

In case you needed another metaphor for the end of the American manned space program: this lovely little space ruin porn film shows the remains of the Aerojet-General rocket factory.

In case you needed another metaphor for the end of the American manned space program: this lovely little space ruin porn film shows the remains of the Aerojet-General rocket factory, which was opened in 1963 in the middle of the Everglades to build the largest solid fuel rocket ever. They built the thing – a 10-story high rocket as wide as a two-car garage – and tested it in a 180 ft. deep silo, which forms the deepest hole in Florida. The company even financed construction of the state's largest canal, to transport the rockets across Florida by barge to the launch site. But NASA went with liquid fuel instead for the Saturn program. Fifty years after the factory was abandoned, the rocket is still there.

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