Gps Coordinates / 28.5851753,-80.6486985
Nasa Launch Control Space VR Panoramas
1094 Vab Rd, Florida, USA
Launch Control Center - Kennedy Space Center is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39. Attached to the southeast corner of the Vehicle Assembly Building, the LCC contains offices; telemetry, tracking, and instrumentation equipment; and firing rooms.
LCC has conducted launches since the unmanned Apollo 4 (Apollo-Saturn 501) launch on November 9, 1967. LCC's first launch with a human crew was Apollo 8 on December 21, 1968. NASA's Space Shuttle program also used LCC. NASA has renovated the center for the upcoming Space Launch System (SLS) missions.
Gps Locations / 28.5851989,-80.6486828
Vehicle Assembly Building
Gps Locations / 28.5863329,-80.6511491
The Vehicle (originally Vertical) Assembly Building, or VAB, is the large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), designed to assemble the large pre-manufactured space vehicle components, such as the massive Saturn V and the Space Shuttle, and stack them vertically onto one of three mobile launcher platforms used by NASA. The future Space Launch System (SLS) will also be assembled there.
At 129,428,000 cubic feet (3,665,000 m3) it is one of the largest buildings in the world by volume. The building is at Launch Complex 39 at KSC, 149 miles south of Jacksonville, 219 miles north of Miami, and 50 miles due east of Orlando, on Merritt Island on the Atlantic coast of Florida.
The VAB is the largest single-story building in the world, was the tallest building (526 ft or 160 m) in Florida until 1974, and was once the tallest building in the United States outside an urban area.
Gps Locations / 28.5862823,-80.6514079
The JPL Mars Yard is a simulated Martian landscape used by research and flight projects to test different robotic prototypes.
Link -118.1697882/ Link -80.6472706 / Link -95.0972315
Mars Yard / Space Station Processing Facility / Independence Plaza at Space Center Houston
Gps coordinates / 34.2023551,-118.1697882 / 28.5099336,-80.6472706 / 29.5518471,-95.0972315
The United States Congress approved the construction of Endeavour in 1987 to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was destroyed in 1986.
NASA chose, on cost grounds, to build much of Endeavour from spare parts rather than refitting the Space Shuttle Enterprise, and used structural spares built during the construction of Discovery and Atlantis in its assembly.
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Link Location Gps -118.2872006
Gps Locations / 34.0161852,-118.2872006
Gps Locations / 28.6081823,-80.6043978
SpaceX leases Launch Complex 39A from NASA and has modified the pad to support Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.NASA began modifying Launch Complex 39B in 2007 to accommodate the now defunct Constellation program, and is currently preparing it for the Artemis program whose first launch is scheduled for no earlier than 2021. A pad to be designated 39C, which would have been a copy of pads 39A and 39B, was originally planned for Apollo but never built. A smaller pad, also designated 39C, was constructed from January to June 2015, to accommodate small-lift launch vehicles.
Launch Pad 39A
Gps Locations / 28.6075638,-80.6040297
Launch Pad 39A emergency escape from shuttle
Gps Locations / 28.6086035,-80.6045252
NASA launches from pads 39A and 39B have been supervised from the NASA Launch Control Center (LCC), located 3 miles (4.8 km) from the launch pads. LC-39 is one of several launch sites that share the radar and tracking services of the Eastern Test Range.
Aerial View of the nasa control launch area
