america races to the moon CHAPTER III:
A M E R I C A
1955
• Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 is enacted.
R A C E S
T O
T H E
1956
1964
• OUC files a
• Indian River Plant, Unit 2 is completed. • OUC begins burying power lines and replacing overhead lines with underground ones, along Colonial Drive, west to Texas Avenue.
request with the Atomic Energy
• OUC employee newsletter, the Spark &
Commission to join
Splash, debuts.
a study of the
M O O N
possibilities of using nuclear-
1957
OUC switches from surface water to well water from Floridan Aquifer.
powered generators. • Glenn L. Martin Company decides to build missile facility
1966
OUC installs first data processing system, the IBM-360.
in southwest Orlando.
1967
• OUC develops Handbook, formalizing employee policies.
1958
• Interstate 4 opens in Orlando,
Additions to the Lake
providing access to new areas
Highland Plant go into
of development in the northern
operation.
and southern regions of Orange County.
1960
• Air Quality Act of 1967 is enacted.
Indian River Plant goes online.
1968
1963
OUC opens new
• Clean Air Act of 1963 is enacted.
Administration Building
• 230,000-volt tie “interconnects”
and Customer
OUC and FPL.
Service Center.
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