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WELCOME TO THE FIRING ROOM 1 STUDIO v1.0: Launching Humanity Into the Future

The Firing Room 1 Studio was built to Keep a Promise to our Father to help educate people about the Science and Human History as taught to us by our Father, an Apollo Skylab Launch Controller.



Our Father was in the Firing Room as the IBM DDAS Network Launch Control for 10 Missions between 1967 and 1973: Apollo 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17 and Skylab 2, 3, and 4.


Our GoFundMe Fundraiser: Proceeds from this Fundraiser are to be used for several important immediate needs in this order:

  • Scanning and Transfer of our Father's four Apollo 16, 17 and Skylab 1 and 2 Super8 Films (~2 minutes per reel for over 8 minutes total) from Kennedy Space Center to 2 K Resolution Digital Format for the Public to See and Download. Total Cost is about $1000.
  • Clean and scan ~500 Color Slides of Kennedy Space Center including the Apollo 17 Rollout and family life circa 1972-82 to the highest resolution available in New York State for a cost of about ~$2000.
  • Other Media including VHS and Super8 Film of family events to be used in Documentary on our Father's Career in the Space Industry for an additional cost of about $1000.
  • To pay Fellow Collaborators and Content Creators (Collegiate and YouTubers) that are going to provide some awesome digital simulations and special effects for STEAM videos this next year from Firing Room 1! Cost ~$2000 for a complete series of 20+ VERY SPECIAL Science Videos.
  • Studio Moving Fund: We need to immediately move to a Commercial Sound Studio and Office Space to accommodate all the peoples. Large cost: $5,000+

First, Funds will be Used for Scanning and Transfer of Media to Digital Format for the Public to Finally See

We have plans with several local Media Transfer Labs to Help Preserve our Father's Legacy by Transferring several Super8mm films, Color Slides, and other media to be shared with the public.

Our Father has Super8mm films of 4 launches filmed from the Kennedy Space Center and about 500+ Color Slides of KSC in 1972-73... 1 by Dad himself (Skylab 1) and 3 of the films were done by his best friend with a base pass, because Dad was in the Firing Room.

The George Eastman Museum Lab Service in Rochester NY, HOME OF KODAK, is providing scan transfer services. THE 2K SCAN of the Super 8mm film will be given to any NASA oriented Filmmaker... free of charge via download when the project is complete:




Funds will be used to Transfer of Color Slides to High Resolution Digital Format


Slides will be scanned and converted to highest quality digital format at Media Transfer Service both in East Rochester NY. "mediatransferservice.com/image.htm"



Both the Super8 Film and the Color Slides need to be Color Corrected and Graded by a Professional. Pre and Post grading footage and images will be made available.

The "Genesis" of Firing Room 1 was only made possible by a Series of both Fortunate and Unfortunate Events.
  • Fortunate Son: I was born the Son of an Apollo Skylab Launch Controller, who knew too much and he did "Pay It Forward" by educating us to educate you!
  • Fortune and Invention: During a very successfully career as Military Engine Control and Manufacture then High Speed Robotics Real Time Control Software Engineering the World's Fastest LED Placement Machine used to build the World's Largest NFL "LED Display" Jumbotrons in Jacksonville and Atlanta!
  • Unfortunate Event: 15 Years Ago I was hit by a Driver Under the Influence of Alcohol Causing a TBI and Career Ending Injuries!
  • Fortunate Recovery Time: Time made it Possible to Dig Up Dad's Legacy and now it is time to Reveal what our Father taught us during his Apollo Skylab and Space Shuttle Career and and it is time to teach you!
  • Fortune Favors the Bold: ARE YOU BOLD!

Our Father
After Skylab Dad transferred to IBM Owego NY and helped build & test Space Shuttle Flight Computers for every Shuttle in the Fleet, including Enterprise and Columbia's Flight Controls. Dad worked with the Father of NASA SpaceX Astronaut Doug Hurley's father, Project Manager on Columbia's Flight Controls.

After retirement, Educating the Public about Real Science and History was our Father's passion that never came to fruition and he requested for us kids to finish it! Now 20 years later we begin.

During his years in the Space Industry Dad learned many life altering details about our collective history in both Science and Human History.

We are now ready to tell you our story, share what we know, and we immediately need your support to help us make a documentary on our Father's career and what he learned during his years in the Space Industry!

This is Dad and I at the location Alan Shepard left Earth a few years earlier. This photo was taken one month before our Father launched Apollo 11 from inside Firing Room 1.


Dad only got to see Skylab 1 launch in person on the NASA Causeway with Mom and us kids! He was on the Launch Team for Skylab 2 and not 1.

Dad filmed Skylab 1 from the NASA Causeway and we all looked on feeling the waves of compression wash over our bodies. Skylab 1 is the Best Launch Ever!

This is one of Dad's slides of Apollo 17 during Rollout


My Mother handing me my first ballistic missile!

Funds are Needed for Collaborating Content Creators Supporting Firing Room 1 Educational Videos

Funds are needed for Collaborating Creators to Construct Complex Content like Real World and Quantum Simulations.
Many of the projects Firing Room 1 is bringing to you involve complex mathematics and even more complex visual simulation which is well above my paygrade.


I must pay my collaboration partners for their skilled time generating simulations and other video effects Science to a general audience and experts alike, at the same time.

Like this simple video on our YouTube Channel: Photons Redshift Via Hawking Evaporation


This is a simple Artist Rendering aka Simulation of Photon Hawking Evaporation of Densified EM Fields that Causes Photon Cosmic Redshift.

We have the immediate need to fund a few skilled collaborators to Create of Physics Simulations, Visual Effects for Videos and to edit videos and other media:


As you can see last years Progression of Sims was slow and we really need a larger staff today!


Podcast to Review Current "State of the Art" in Space Flight from Inside Firing Room 1
We were built to cover live events and to prepare, develop, edit, content over days, weeks, and months.




Firing Room Needs to Immediately Move to a New Sound and Film Studio
We are currently unable to have the planned set of staff and guests in the studio at our current location and are looking for a new commercial grade studio and office.


Locations being considered range widely: Rochester NY (currently location), Cape Canaveral Florida (my Home Town), and Austin / Houston, Texas.

So, why did we build this and plan some really HEAVY content for the last 4 YEARS!?!?

Family History In Space

Our Father was an Apollo Skylab Launch Controller in the Firing Room for 10 Missions between 1967 and 1973: Apollo 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17 and Skylab 2, 3, and 4.


During his years in the Space Industry Dad learned many life altering details about our collective history in both Science and Human History.


Our Primary Mission is to inform you of those life altering facts our Father learned in and around the Apollo Skylab Firing Room in the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center from VIPs including Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, VPOTUS Spiro Agnew, Rocco Petrone and Wernher von Braun.


Wernher, a work acquaintance of our Father, signed his Launch Vehicle Operation Manual in the JFK Box while still in Firing Room 1 about an hour after launching Apollo 11 after VIP Speeches.

Dad's signature is along the top, John W. Boze just above Wernher's.


This was photocopied in the Launch Controller Center and handed out to about 200+ VIPs inside and outside the LCC about 2 or 3 hours after launch of Apollo 11.


An analysis of a VIP's copy of our Father's Apollo 11 LVO Manual Cover was provided by Ken Havekotte of Merrit Island, Florida.



You Can Also Support Firing Room 1 on our Other Crowd Funding Platforms

Firing Room 1 Patreon Page : To give Long Term Monthly Support and to gain ACCESS to The Firing Room 1 Discord Server so you can join the conversation. Get Quarterly "T-Minus" Tier Merch via Patreon:



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John Boze
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Rochester, NY

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