Kennedy Space Center, originally
designed for the Apollo Project, now includes facilities for the Space
Shuttle as well as for unmanned interplanetary flights. Our firm, in
joint venture with Seelye Stevenson Value & Knecht, designed the
Vehicle Assembly Building , Launch Control Center, and the
Space Shuttle Orbiter Processing Facility.
The VAB, 500 feet tall and covering more than 10 acres of land, was designed
for the simultaneous assembly of four Saturn V rockets that were wheeled
to launching pads through doors 40 stories high. In addition to the vast
assembly space—the largest enclosed volume in the world—the
building contains laboratories, offices, work shops, and cafeterias.
The operations required unprecedented design of custom fabricated maintenance
and repair equipment which were layed out and coordinated by
Urbahn.
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