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IBEW and the Space Program
This photo shows construction of the Cape Canaveral missile pad and Blockhouse 37 with heavy wall galvanized conduit banks, which were installed by members of Local Union 756, Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1962.
Since the first days of the US space program, the IBEW and union labor have helped in mankind's leap across the solar system. In 1969, IBEW locals and other union brothers and sisters manufactured the equipment for a safe lunar landing and kept communications running from Houston to the moon. The collective efforts of IBEW members were "accomplishments of the first order," according to the first man on the moon, former astronaut Neil Armstrong. As the union label flies with NASA on its space stations, satellites, and shuttles, the IBEW continues to train members to meet the demands of space-age technology. |