Editing Kennedy Space Center (section)

== Facilities ==
[[File:Map of Kennedy Space Center.png|thumb|KSC industrial area]]

The KSC Industrial Area, where many of the center's support facilities are located, is {{convert|5|mi|km|0}} south of [[LC-39]]. It includes the [[KSC Headquarters Building|Headquarters Building]], the [[Operations and Checkout Building]] and the [[Central Instrumentation Facility]]. The astronaut crew quarters are in the O&C; before it was completed, the astronaut crew quarters were located in Hangar S<ref>{{cite web |title = Hangar S History |url = http://www.nasa.gov/content/hangar-s-history |website = Kennedy Space Center |date = May 18, 2015 |publisher = NASA |access-date = November 5, 2015 |archive-date = November 17, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151117153918/http://www.nasa.gov/content/hangar-s-history/ |url-status = dead }}</ref> at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex (now [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station]]).<ref name="KSC History Quiz" /> Located at KSC was the [[Merritt Island Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network station]] (MILA), a key radio communications and spacecraft tracking complex.

Facilities at the Kennedy Space Center are directly related to its mission to launch and recover missions. Facilities are available to prepare and maintain spacecraft and payloads for flight.<ref>{{cite web|title=iv. Kennedy Space Center Planning and Development Office – What We Offer – Physical Assets |url=http://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/en/What%20We%20Offer/Physical%20Assets |access-date=March 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140404002127/http://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/en/What%20We%20Offer/Physical%20Assets |archive-date=April 4, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kennedy Space Center Resource Encyclopedia |url = http://tdglobal.ksc.nasa.gov/servlet/sm.web.Fetch/KHB-1863?rhid=1000&did=35173&type=released&rev=$latest |publisher = NASA – Kennedy Space Center |access-date=March 4, 2014 |year=2010 }}</ref> The Headquarters (HQ) Building houses offices for the Center Director, library, film and photo archives, a print shop and security.<ref>[http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/hq.html Headquarters Building (HQ)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817082304/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/hq.html |date=August 17, 2016 }}. Science.ksc.nasa.gov. Retrieved on May 5, 2012.</ref> When the KSC Library first opened, it was part of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. However, in 1965, the library moved into three separate sections in the newly opened NASA headquarters before eventually becoming a single unit in 1970.<ref name=":0" /> The library contains over four million items related to the history and the work at Kennedy. As one of ten NASA center libraries in the country, their collection focuses on engineering, science, and technology. The archives contain planning documents, film reels, and original photographs covering the history of KSC. The library is not open to the public but is available for KSC, Space Force, and Navy employees who work on site.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Borchert|first1=Carol Ann|last2=Arthur|first2=Michael A.|date=2007|editor-last=Ginanni|editor-first=Katy|title=John F. Kennedy Space Center Library|url=https://www.academia.edu/26630541|journal=Serials Review|volume=33|issue=4|pages=277–280|doi=10.1016/j.serrev.2007.08.012|s2cid=60797881 |via=Academia.edu}}</ref>

A new [[KSC Headquarters Building|Headquarters Building]] was completed in 2019 as part of the Central Campus consolidation. Groundbreaking began in 2014.<ref name="Master Plan 2012" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Kennedy Space Center Central Campus|date=March 25, 2015|url=http://www.nasa.gov/content/kennedy-central-campus|publisher=NASA|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404230355/https://www.nasa.gov/content/kennedy-central-campus/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Central Campus of the Kennedy Space Center|url=http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/KSC-central-campus.pdf|website=Kennedy Space Center Fact Sheets|publisher=NASA|access-date=3 February 2016|ref=FS-2014-09-262-KSC|archive-date=February 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222140715/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/KSC-central-campus.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Media Invited to Groundbreaking for New Kennedy Space Center Headquarters|url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/releases/2014/release-20141002b.html|publisher=NASA|access-date=November 5, 2015|date=October 2, 2014}}</ref>

The center operated its own {{convert|17|mi|adj=on}} [[NASA Railroad|short-line railroad]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The NASA Railroad|url=http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NASA-Railroad.pdf|website=Kennedy Space Center Fact Sheets|publisher=NASA|access-date=3 February 2016|ref=FS-2013-04-075-KSC}}</ref> This operation was discontinued in 2015, with the sale of its final two locomotives. A third had already been donated to a museum. The line was costing $1.3&nbsp;million annually to maintain.<ref>{{cite news |first=James |last=Dean |title = NASA Railroad rides into sunset |url = http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2015/05/23/nasa-railroad-rides-sunset/27784213/ |newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida |page = 25A | date=May 24, 2015 |access-date=June 2, 2015 }}</ref>

=== Payload manufacture and processing ===
[[File:KSC Operations and Checkout Building.jpg|thumb|Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building]]
[[File:ISS_space_station_modules_in_the_SSPF.jpg|thumb|Pre-made ISS modules in the Space Station Processing Facility]]
[[File:BlueOrigin_OLS_mfg_building,_Florida_(from_southeast).jpg|thumb|[[Blue Origin]]'s manufacturing facility near KSC visitor complex]]

* The [[Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building]] (O&C) (previously known as the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building) is a historic site on the [[U.S. National Register of Historic Places]] dating back to the 1960s and was used to receive, process, and integrate payloads for the Gemini and Apollo programs, the Skylab program in the 1970s, and for initial segments of the International Space Station through the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/oc.html|title=Operations and Checkout Building|access-date=October 16, 2011|archive-date=January 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121220555/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/oc.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Apollo and Space Shuttle astronauts would board the [[astronaut transfer van]] to launch complex 39 from the O&C building.<ref name="astrovan">{{cite web |url = http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/behindscenes/astrovan.html |title = Catching a Ride to Destiny |publisher=NASA |first=Cheryl L. |last=Mansfield |date=July 15, 2008 |access-date=July 13, 2009 }}</ref>
* The three-story, {{convert|457000|sqft|adj=on}} [[Space Station Processing Facility]] (SSPF) consists of two enormous processing bays, an airlock, operational control rooms, laboratories, logistics areas and office space for support of non-hazardous Space Station and Shuttle payloads to [[Class 3000|ISO 14644-1 class 5]] standards.<ref>[http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/sspf.html Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206084918/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/sspf.html |date=February 6, 2007 }}. Science.ksc.nasa.gov. Retrieved on May 5, 2012.</ref> Opened in 1994, it is the largest factory building in the KSC industrial area.
*The Vertical Processing Facility (VPF) features a {{convert|71|by|38|ft|adj=on}} door where payloads that are processed in the vertical position are brought in and manipulated with two overhead cranes and a hoist capable of lifting up to {{convert|35|ST}}.<ref>[http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/vpf.html Vertical Processing Facility] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017175450/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/vpf.html |date=October 17, 2016 }}. Science.ksc.nasa.gov. Retrieved on May 5, 2012.</ref>
* The [[Hypergolic Maintenance and Checkout Facility]] (HMCA) comprises three buildings that are isolated from the rest of the industrial area because of the hazardous materials handled there. [[Hypergolic-fuel]]ed modules that made up the Space Shuttle Orbiter's [[reaction control system]], orbital maneuvering system and auxiliary power units were stored and serviced in the HMCF.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/hmf.html |title = Hypergolic Maintenance and Checkout Facility |access-date = October 16, 2011 |archive-date = September 8, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160908211507/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/hmf.html |url-status = dead }}</ref>
* The [[Multi-Payload Processing Facility]] is a {{convert|19647|sqft|m2|sp=us}}<ref name="NASA_MPPF_Gas_Station">{{cite web |last=Granath |first=Bob |title=Multi-Payload Processing Facility Provides 'Gas Station' for Orion |url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/multi-payload-processing-facility-provides-gas-station-for-orion |website=NASA |access-date=1 December 2019 |date=25 August 2016 |language=en-US |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617080204/https://www.nasa.gov/feature/multi-payload-processing-facility-provides-gas-station-for-orion/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> building used for Orion spacecraft and payload processing.
*The '''Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility''' ('''PHSF''') contains a {{convert|70|by|110|ft|adj=on}} service bay, with a {{convert|50|ST|lb kg|adj=on|order=out}}, {{convert|85|ft|adj=on}} hook height. It also contains a {{convert|58|by|80|ft|adj=on}} payload airlock. Its temperature is maintained at {{cvt|70|F|C}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/phsf.html |title=Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility |publisher=Science.ksc.nasa.gov |access-date=2018-05-02 |archive-date=December 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224063325/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/phsf.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*The '''Blue Origin''' rocket manufacturing facility is located immediately south of the KSC visitor complex. Completed in 2019, it serves as the company's factory for the manufacture of New Glenn orbital rockets.<ref name="nsf29170329">{{cite news |last1=Bergin |first1=Chris |last2=Munson |first2=Noel |url = https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/03/blue-origin-making-cape-orbital-launch-site/ |title = Blue Origin working towards making the Cape its Orbital Launch Site |website = NASASpaceFlight |date=29 March 2017 |access-date=20 January 2018 }}</ref>

=== Launch Complex 39 ===
{{Main|Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39}}

[[File:Aerial View of Launch Complex 39.jpg|thumb|The [[Vehicle Assembly Building]] (center) in 1999, with the [[Launch Control Center]] jutting out from its right, and Pads A and B in the distance]]
[[File:Kennedy Space Center VAB.jpg|thumb|Closeup photo of the VAB]]

[[Launch Complex 39]] (LC-39) was originally built for the [[Saturn V]], the largest and most powerful operational launch vehicle until the [[Space Launch System]], for the [[Apollo program|Apollo crewed Moon landing program]]. Since the end of the Apollo program in 1972, LC-39 has been used to launch every NASA human space flight, including [[Skylab]] (1973), the [[Apollo–Soyuz Test Project]] (1975), and the [[Space Shuttle program]] (1981–2011).

Since December 1968, all launch operations have been conducted from [[Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A|launch pads A]] and [[Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B|B]] at LC-39. Both pads are on the ocean, {{convert|3|mi|km}} east of the VAB. From 1969 to 1972, LC-39 was the "Moonport" for all six Apollo crewed Moon landing missions using the Saturn V,<ref>{{cite book
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Human missions to the [[Moon]] required the large three-stage Saturn V rocket, which was {{convert|363|ft|m|sp=us|abbr=off}} tall and {{convert|33|ft|m|sp=us|abbr=off}} in diameter. At KSC, Launch Complex 39 was built on Merritt Island to accommodate the new rocket. Construction of the $800&nbsp;million project began in November 1962. LC-39 pads A and B were completed by October 1965 (planned Pads C, D and E were canceled), the VAB was completed in June 1965, and the infrastructure by late 1966.

The complex includes:
* the [[Vehicle Assembly Building]] (VAB), a {{convert|130000000|ft3|m3}} hangar capable of holding four Saturn Vs. The VAB was the largest structure in the world by volume when completed in 1965.<ref name="congressional record Sep 8, 2004">{{cite journal|title=Senate|journal=Congressional Record|date=September 8, 2004|page=17598}}</ref>
* a [[Crawler-transporter|transporter]] capable of carrying 5,440 tons along a [[crawlerway]] to either of two launch pads;
* a {{convert|446|ft|m|0|adj=on}} mobile [[service structure]], with three [[Mobile Launcher Platform]]s, each containing a fixed launch umbilical tower;
* the [[Launch Control Center]]; and
* a [[Launch Complex 39 Press Site|news media facility]].

=== Launch Complex 48 ===
{{Main|Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 48}}

[[File:LC-48 EIS Image--019.jpg|thumb|A rendering of [[Boeing]]'s [[XS-1 (spacecraft)#Boeing XS-1 Phantom Express|XS-1 Phantom Express]] launch vehicle on LC-48]]

Launch Complex 48 (LC-48) is a multi-user launch site under construction for small launchers and spacecraft. It will be located between [[Launch Complex 39A]] and [[Space Launch Complex 41]], with LC-39A to the north and SLC-41 to the south.<ref name="Kelly_FloridaToday_SLC-48">{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Emre |title = Meet Launch Complex 48, NASA's new small rocket pad at Kennedy Space Center |url = https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2019/06/14/meet-launch-complex-48-nasa-new-pad-kennedy-space-center-florida/1408175001/ |website=Florida Today |access-date=7 January 2020 |language=en |date=14 June 2019 }}</ref> LC-48 will be constructed as a "clean pad" to support multiple launch systems with differing propellant needs. While initially only planned to have a single pad, the complex is capable of being expanded to two at a later date.<ref>{{cite book |title=Draft Environmental Assessment for Launch Complex 48 |date=19 February 2019 |publisher=NASA |url = https://netspublic.grc.nasa.gov/main/LC%2048%20Environmental%20Assessment%20with%20Appendices_02.19.2019.pdf |access-date=7 January 2020 |pages=ii–iii |language=en-US }}</ref>

=== Commercial leasing ===
As a part of promoting commercial space industry growth in the area and the overall center as a multi-user spaceport,<ref>{{cite web |url = http://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/partnerships/success-stories|title=Partnering with KSC|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104061054/http://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/partnerships/success-stories|archive-date=November 4, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Front Page Archive|url=http://www.nasa.gov/content/the-front-page-archive|website=Doing Business With Kennedy|date=March 26, 2015|publisher=NASA|access-date=November 5, 2015|archive-date=November 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117132120/http://www.nasa.gov/content/the-front-page-archive/|url-status=dead}}</ref> KSC leases some of its properties. Here are some major examples:
* [[Exploration Park]] to multiple users (partnership with [[Space Florida]])
* [[Shuttle Landing Facility]] to [[Space Florida]] (who contracts use to private companies)
* [[Orbiter Processing Facility#Orbiter assignments.2FOPF status|Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF)-3]] to [[Boeing]] (for [[CST-100 Starliner]])
* [[Launch Complex 39A]], Launch Control Center Firing Room 4 and land for SpaceX's Roberts Road facility (Hangar X) to [[SpaceX]]
* [[Operations and Checkout Building|O&C High Bay]] to [[Lockheed Martin]] (for [[Orion (spacecraft)|Orion]] processing)
* Land for FPL's [[Space Coast Next Generation Solar Energy Center]] to [[Florida Power and Light]] (FPL)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/Success-Stories/Partnerships/Florida-Power-and-Light |title=Partnering with KSC |access-date=November 5, 2015 |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117022802/http://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/Success-Stories/Partnerships/Florida-Power-and-Light |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Solar Energy Centers |url=https://www.fpl.com/clean-energy/solar/energy-centers.html|publisher=FPL}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Space Coast Next Generation Solar Energy Center|url=http://www.nasa.gov/agency/sustainability/energyandwater/spacecoastsolar.html|website=Sustainability|date=June 7, 2013|publisher=NASA|access-date=November 5, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225117/http://www.nasa.gov/agency/sustainability/energyandwater/spacecoastsolar.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Hypergolic Maintenance Facility (HMF) to United Paradyne Corporation (UPC)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/Success-Stories/Partnerships/United-Paradyne-Corporation|title=Partnering with KSC|access-date=November 5, 2015|archive-date=November 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117142511/http://kscpartnerships.ksc.nasa.gov/Success-Stories/Partnerships/United-Paradyne-Corporation|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Visitor complex ===
{{Main|Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex}}

[[File:KennedySpaceCentreVisitor'sCentreFrontGate.JPG|thumb|Gate to the KSC Visitor Complex in 2006; [[Space Shuttle Explorer|''Explorer'']], a [[Space Shuttle]] mock-up, is in the background]]

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, operated by [[Delaware North]] since 1995, has a variety of exhibits, artifacts, displays and attractions on the history and future of human and robotic spaceflight. Bus tours of KSC originate from here. The complex also includes the separate [[Apollo/Saturn V Center]], north of the VAB and the [[United States Astronaut Hall of Fame]], six miles west near [[Titusville, Florida|Titusville]]. There were 1.5&nbsp;million visitors in 2009. It had some 700 employees.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Amanda | last=Stratford | title=NASA's new image | url=http://www.app.com/article/A9/20100112/NEWS02/1120326/-1/SCIENCE| work=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida | pages= 1A | date=January 12, 2010 }}</ref>

It was announced on May 29, 2015, that the Astronaut Hall of Fame exhibit would be moved from its current location to another location within the Visitor Complex to make room for an upcoming high-tech attraction entitled "Heroes and Legends". The attraction, designed by Orlando-based design firm Falcon's Treehouse, opened November 11, 2016.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dean|first=James|title=KSC Visitor Complex introduces 'Heroes and Legends'|url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/2015/05/29/ksc-visitor-complex-breaks-ground-on-major-new-attraction/28142981/|website=Florida Today|access-date=August 6, 2015}}</ref>

In March 2016, the visitor center unveiled the new location of the iconic countdown clock at the complex's entrance; previously, the clock was located with a flagpole at the press site. The clock was originally built and installed in 1969 and listed with the flagpole in the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in January 2000.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2016/3/1/countdown_clock_kennedy_space_center_moved.html| title=Iconic KSC countdown clock gets a new home| date=March 1, 2016| publisher=News 13| access-date=March 2, 2016}}</ref> In 2019, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the [[Apollo program]], and the launch of Apollo 10 on May 18.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2019/may/event-apollo-10| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190408183633/https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2019/may/event-apollo-10| archive-date = April 8, 2019| title = Honoring Apollo 10 {{!}} Apollo Program 50th Anniversary Celebrations}}</ref> In summer of 2019, [[Lunar Module]] 9 (LM-9) was relocated to the [[Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex|Apollo/Saturn V Center]] as part of an initiative to rededicate the center and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program.

===Historic locations===
NASA lists the following Historic Districts at KSC; each district has multiple associated facilities:<ref name="Historic Sites">{{cite web|title=Historic Properties at Kennedy Space Center As of January 2015|url=http://environmental.ksc.nasa.gov/projects/documents/historicalSites.pdf|website=Environmental Planning – Cultural Resources|publisher=NASA|access-date=November 5, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223911/http://environmental.ksc.nasa.gov/projects/documents/historicalSites.pdf|archive-date=March 3, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Understanding NASA's Historic Districts|url=http://environmental.ksc.nasa.gov/projects/documents/NASAHistroric.pdf|website=Environmental Program at KSC|publisher=NASA|access-date=November 5, 2015|date=June 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117025227/http://environmental.ksc.nasa.gov/projects/documents/NASAHistroric.pdf|archive-date=November 17, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Environmental Planning – Cultural Resources|url=http://environmental.ksc.nasa.gov/projects/cultural.htm|website=Environmental Program at KSC|publisher=NASA|access-date=November 5, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922143748/http://environmental.ksc.nasa.gov/projects/cultural.htm|archive-date=September 22, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*[[Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|Launch Complex 39]]: Pad A Historic District
*Launch Complex 39: Pad B Historic District
*[[Shuttle Landing Facility]] (SLF) Area Historic District
*Orbiter Processing Historic District
*Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) Disassembly and Refurbishment Complex Historic District
*NASA KSC Railroad System Historic District
*NASA-owned Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Industrial Area Historic District

There are 24 historic properties outside of these historic districts, including the [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']], [[Vehicle Assembly Building]], Crawlerway, and [[Operations and Checkout Building]].<ref name="Historic Sites" /> KSC has one [[National Historic Landmark]], 78 [[National Register of Historic Places]] (NRHP) listed or eligible sites, and 100 Archaeological Sites.<ref>{{cite web |title = NASA's Historic Preservation Program: Celebrating and Managing Significant Historic Resources |url = http://pbhistoryb1b3.grc.nasa.gov/assets/mitigation/NASAs%20Historic%20Preservation%20Program.pdf |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151117025808/http://pbhistoryb1b3.grc.nasa.gov/assets/mitigation/NASAs%20Historic%20Preservation%20Program.pdf |url-status = dead |archive-date = November 17, 2015 |publisher = NASA |access-date = November 5, 2015 }}</ref>

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=== Other facilities ===
* The '''Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility''' ('''RPSF''') is responsible for the preparation of [[solid rocket booster]] segments for transportation to the [[Vehicle Assembly Building]] (VAB). The RPSF was built in 1984 to perform SRB operations that had previously been conducted in high bays 2 and 4 of the VAB at the beginning of the [[Space Shuttle program]]. It was used until the [[Space Shuttle]]'s retirement, and will be used in the future by the [[Space Launch System]]<ref name="RPSF_Factsheet">{{cite web |title=NASAfacts: Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF) at Kennedy Space Center |url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/rpsf_factsheet_508_20180525.pdf |publisher=NASA |access-date=21 December 2019}}</ref> (SLS) and [[OmegA]] rockets.