Operations and Checkout Building
The Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building is a historic building on Merritt Island, Florida, United States. The five-story structure is in the Industrial Area of NASA's Kennedy Space Center.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Building
- Description: building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States
- Also known as: “Manned Spacecraft Operations Building”, “MSOB”, “Neil Armstrong Operations & Checkout Building”, “Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building”, and “O&C Building”
- Address: M7-355
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Space Systems Processing Facility and Multi-Payload Processing Facility.
Space Systems Processing Facility
Building
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Space Systems Processing Facility, originally the Space Station Processing Facility, is a three-story industrial building at Kennedy Space Center for the manufacture and processing of flight hardware, modules, structural components and solar arrays of the International Space Station, and future space stations and commercial spacecraft. Space Systems Processing Facility is situated 1,300 feet east of Operations and Checkout Building.
Multi-Payload Processing Facility
Building
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Multi-Payload Processing Facility is a facility at Kennedy Space Center constructed by NASA in either 1994 or 1995 and used for spacecraft and payload processing. Multi-Payload Processing Facility is situated 3,600 feet south of Operations and Checkout Building.
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Theme park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. It features exhibits and displays, historic spacecraft and memorabilia, shows, two IMAX theaters, and a range of bus tours of the spaceport. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is situated 2 miles west of Operations and Checkout Building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Courtenay.
Courtenay
Locality
Courtenay is an unincorporated community on Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Courtenay is situated 6 miles southwest of Operations and Checkout Building.
Operations and Checkout Building
- Categories: government building, production facility, and test facility
- Location: Brevard, Florida, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.52381° or 28° 31′ 26″ northLongitude
-80.64617° or 80° 38′ 46″ westOpen location code
76WXG9F3+GGOpenStreetMap ID
way 168788700OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q7097807
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In Other Languages
From French to Slovak—“Operations and Checkout Building” goes by many names.
- French: “Operations and Checkout Building”
- Italian: “Operations and Checkout Building”
- Japanese: “O&Cビルディング”
- Japanese: “ニール・アームストロング・オペレーション・アンド・チェックアウト・ビルディング”
- Japanese: “運用点検施設”
- Slovak: “Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building”
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