Aft Skirt Test Building

Aft Skirt Test Building is a building in Brevard, Florida. Aft Skirt Test Building is situated nearby to Merritt Island, as well as near the island Cedar Hammock.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kennedy Space Center and Vehicle Assembly Building.

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

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 north of Aft Skirt Test Building.