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Launch Complex 39 Construction - Photos and Footage - 1962/67 - VAB, Pad 39, Kennedy Space Center

Video showing several stages of Launch Complex 39 construction. Film and photos are shown in chronological order, based on NASA date references. Launch Complex 39 was built for Apollo and includes the VAB - Vehicle Assembly Building, the Crawlerway, Pad 39A and 39B. The first sequence focuses on the launchpad construction, the second on the VAB. Mobile launchers and the crawler are also shown in less detail. Research, video and image restoration and editing by Retro Space HD. ========================================= In 1961, President Kennedy proposed to Congress the goal of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. Congressional approval led to the launch of the Apollo program, which required a massive expansion of NASA operations, including an expansion of launch operations from the Cape to adjacent Merritt Island to the north and west. NASA began acquisition of land in 1962, taking title to 131 square miles (340 km2) by outright purchase and negotiating with the state of Florida for an additional 87 square miles (230 km2). On July 1, 1962, the site was named the Launch Operations Center. At the time, the highest numbered launch pad at CCAFS was Launch Complex 37. When the lunar launch complex was designed, it was designated as Launch Complex 39. It was designed to handle launches of the Saturn V rocket, the largest, most powerful rocket then designed, which would propel Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. The Crawlerway was built with the additional pads in mind. This is the reason the Crawlerway turns as it heads to Pad B; continuing straight from that turn would have led to the additional pads. 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. At 129,428,000 cubic feet (3,665,000 m3) it is one of the largest buildings in the world by volume. 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. The VAB, which was completed in 1966, was originally built for the vertical assembly of the Apollo–Saturn V space vehicle and was referred to as the Vertical Assembly Building. In anticipation of post-Apollo projects such as the Space Shuttle program, it was renamed the Vehicle Assembly Building on February 3, 1965. It was subsequently used to mate the Space Shuttle orbiters to their external fuel tanks and solid rocket boosters. Once the complete space vehicle was assembled on a mobile launcher platform, a crawler-transporter moved it to Launch Complex-39A or 39B. ========================================= A special thanks to the channel supporters (   / retrospacehd   ): Asbjørn Bill Hurley Darcy Barrett Ellie Burack Francis Bernier Gary Smith Gio Pagliari Jan Strzelecki Jeff Pleimling Jules E Michael Pennington Nathan Koga Nathan Westwick Noah Soderquist Ryan Hardy Scott Manley ======================================== #lc39 #ksc #vab