This dome housed a theodolite used in tracking the launches from Complex 34 on Cape Canaveral. The theodolite was mounted on a free-standing column inside the building. The column appeared to have a separate foundation from the rest of the building.
Operating much like the dome on an observatory, the cover pulled back and the dome could rotate. When this photograph was made, the cover was overgrown with moss, thus proving that moss grows on a rotating dome!
The theodolite dome and building
were demolished in the mid 1990s.
Theodolite Tracking Dome, Complex 34, CCAFS |
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