Replicas of his three ships sailed past the launch pad at the Kennedy Space On the 500th arniversary of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World, In 1992 in celebration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ first voyage to the Americas, replicas of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria were constructed, crewed by volunteers and sailed across the Atlantic to reenact this incredible voyage of exploration. In June 1992 the replica Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria passed the launch pads of the Kennedy Space Center. The picture says it all: old voyagers and explorers riding the wind and seas, passing the torch to the new explorers and saluting those spacecraft waiting their turn to fly from the Kennedy Space Center. Columbus’s distress was eased by his relief at having another ship for his return voyage to Spain.Ĭolumbus returned to the Americas three more times, but ended his life thinking he had discovered the route to Asia. Now down to just one ship, Columbus continued eastward along the coast of Hispaniola, and was surprised when he came upon the Pinta on January 6. Columbus used the remains of the ship to build a fort on shore, which he named La Navidad (Christmas).
The flagship Santa Maria grounded on a reef on Christmas Eve and foundered the next day. Columbus continued with the Santa Maria and Niña eastward, and arrived at Hispaniola on December 5, while the captain of the Pinta sailed on his own mission looking for gold. Columbus left the island of Gomera on September 6, 1492.Ĭolumbus arrived at his Bahamas landfall on October 12, and then proceeded to Cuba on October 28. With the blessing and financial support of the King and Queen of Spain, Christopher Columbus had sailed from Palos, Spain in early September 1492 and stopped at the Canary Islands, the westernmost of Spanish possessions. Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) These hills comprise the islands of the Bahamas. Near Florida and Cuba, the underwater terrain is hilly, and the crests of many of After completing passage of the Florida Straits, Liberty Star, Pegasus and ET-134 will pass west of an icon of human exploration, the mixture of small islands generally believed to be where Christopher Columbus first sighted land in the Bahamas. No one knows for sure which island was the first to be sighted by Columbus, but the prime candidates are Samana Cay, Plana Cays, Grand Turk, or San Salvador Island (named San Salvador in 1925 in the belief that it was Columbus’ San Salvador).
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