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LAUNCII COMPt,EX 39

• Launch Complex 39 (LC-39), Kennedy Space Center, Florida, provides all the

facilities necessary for the assembly, checkout, and launch of the ApolloSaturn

space vehicle. The vehicle assembly building (VAB) provides a controlled

environment in which the vehicle is asse,nbled and checked out on a mobile launch-

er (ML). The space vehicle and the launch structure are then moved as a unit by

. the crawler-transporter (C-T) to the launch site, where vehicle launch is ac- .

compllshed after propellant loading and final checkout. The major elements of

the launch complex showa in Figure 7, are the vehicle assembly building (VAB),

tll_ laulluh control center (LCC), the mobile launcher _L), the crawler-trans-

porter (C-T), the crawlerwsy, the _aobile service structure (MSS), and the launch

pad •

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