Kennedy Space Center / Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Fire Station 6

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Kennedy Space Center

Photo: Max Siegmayer, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Kennedy Space Center is a spaceport in Florida, west of Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island. It is part of a region known as the "Space Coast", since most of the crewed United States spacecraft are launched from the Space Coast.

Vehicle Assembly Building

Hangar

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The Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, is a large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, designed to assemble large pre-manufactured space vehicle components, such as the massive Saturn V, the Space Shuttle and the Space Launch System, and stack them vertically onto one of three mobile launcher platforms used by NASA. Vehicle Assembly Building is situated 1,700 feet north of Kennedy Space Center / Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Fire Station 6.

Launch Control Center

Building

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

The Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39. Launch Control Center is situated 1,600 feet northeast of Kennedy Space Center / Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Fire Station 6.

Kennedy Space Center / Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Fire Station 6

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