good stuff!

That is great, I love seeing this kind of stuff- I am a huge space Fan :)

I saw the Aerojet rocket engine flame/exhaust fire high into the air over the Everglades. My father was stationed @ Homestead AFB, FL in the '60s. We watched the rocket engine fire in the Everglades, from the highest point at Homestead AFB, the pool area...Nice documentary, never knew the rest of the story, thanks...
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Excellent doc! What equipment did you shoot it on?

So is the rocket body still in the silo?

Excellent video. Just one historical correction, this program actually came into being after the Saturn V was selected as the launcher for Apollo. The solid motor program was for follow-on rockets for moon bases and Mars missions. After the Apollo era, Aerojet wanted to build the Space Shuttle rocket boosters at the Dade site, but lost that contract to Lockheed and Thiokol.

There was another, similar site in Georgia, near Brunswick, that was run by Thiokol.

nice film! that place has always fascinated me. last time some folks I know visited, they said the silo was slowly flooding... it's a shame that equipment is being left there to decay.

I want to play paintball there. Some paint and it might even look like a Team Fortress 2 Map! XD

Nice! !
but please add subtitles , it's hard to understand ...
skip the fast camera movement in the beginning
make the endtitles less big .

Bummer!

Cool documentary, storytelling and subject. Love the fade between the historical image and the present day toward the beginning.

We were granted access to shoot a music video there last week 8/13/11. For anyone looking to go out there & look around... the rocket silo building has now been completely barricaded. Unless you have a bulldozer your not getting in. I'm sure they've done this to keep someone from eventually getting killed in it, (after seeing some urban explorer sites where people have repelled down into the silo). Other building doors have been blocked with concrete barricades or a couple thousand pounds of rock. Some of which is seen in this documentary. There isn't much left in any of these buildings, mostly bare walls & small debris. Also note that they are doing some type of extensive canal work along the road going in there. There are currently lots of workers along the long road to the abandoned complex, plus multiple gates. Even though we had permission & the insurance to be there we still had work crew people come up to us to see what we were doing out there. Hats off to the folks of Coffee & Celluloid for making this short. The insects there would have made short work of lesser men.

This was a friend's project which I provided the telescopic camera crane for. We'll let you know when & where it's posted. Question. Was the former employee of Aerojet able to give you any explanation as to what all the different buildings out there were used for?

Here's a link to the video that I provided the Scorpio crane for at this site and my friend created...

vimeo.com/28290814