Launch and Landing Facility
The Shuttle Landing Facility, also known as Launch and Landing Facility, is an airport located on Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida, United States.- Type: Airport
- Also known as: “LLF”
- Historically known as: “Shuttle Landing Facility” and “SLF”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Reusable Launch Vehicle Hangar and Vehicle Assembly Building.
Vehicle Assembly Building
Hangar
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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 2 miles southeast of Launch and Landing Facility.
Launch and Landing Facility
- Category: transportation
- Location: Brevard, Florida, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.59907° or 28° 35′ 57″ northLongitude
-80.68399° or 80° 41′ 2″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)ICAO airport code
KTTSFAA airport codes
X68 and TTSOpen location code
76WXH8X8+JCGeoNames ID
8484206
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