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Photo, Print, Drawing Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Flight Crew Training Building, Southeast corner of Second Street/Avenue E intersection, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

[ Data Pages from Survey HABS FL-581-C  ]

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[ Photo Captions from Survey HABS FL-581-C  ]

About this Item

Title

  • Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Flight Crew Training Building, Southeast corner of Second Street/Avenue E intersection, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Names

  • Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
  • Broadfoot & Mathis Architects-Engineers
  • Army Corps of Engineers
  • Smith & Sapp Construction Company
  • Broadfoot, A. Robert
  • North American Aviation
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center, sponsor
  • Archaeological Consultants, Inc., contractor
  • InoMedic Health Applications, contractor
  • Slovinac, Patricia, historian
  • Rogo, Penny, photographer
  • Deming, Joan, editor
  • Liston, Elaine, editor
  • Naylor, Barbara, editor
  • English, Nancy, editor
  • Provancha, Jane, editor

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

  • -  national space program
  • -  space exploration
  • -  space flight
  • -  training
  • -  concrete block construction
  • -  concrete foundations
  • -  reinforced concrete construction
  • -  concrete roofs
  • -  parapets
  • -  gypsum board
  • -  laboratories
  • -  space shuttles
  • -  Apollo Program
  • -  simulators
  • -  ventilation
  • -  conference rooms
  • -  acoustical tiles
  • -  tanks (containers)
  • -  offices
  • -  Florida -- Brevard County -- Cape Canaveral

Latitude / Longitude

  • 28.522579,-80.642253

Notes

  • -  Significance: The FCTB was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, in recognition of its importance at the national level in the context of the Apollo Program (ca. 1961-1975). The building is significant in the area of space exploration and for its association with the Apollo astronauts. The FCTB derives its primary significance from the High Bay area at the south of the building, which was designed for the unique purpose of astronaut training. The facility was modeled after the astronaut training facilities at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas; the astronauts underwent general training at JSC and more specific mission training at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
  • -  Survey number: HABS FL-581-C
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1964-1966 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1967 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1970-1971 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1975- ca. 1977 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 2012 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1987-1988 Subsequent Work

Medium

  • Photo(s): 31
  • Data Page(s): 79
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 3

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HABS FL-581-C

Source Collection

  • Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

  • fl0790

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Broadfoot & Mathis Architects-Engineers, Army Corps Of Engineers, Smith & Sapp Construction Company, A. Robert Broadfoot, North American Aviation, Kennedy Space Center National Aeronautics And Space Administration, Inc Archaeological Consultants, Contractor Inomedic Health Applications, and Patricia Slovinac, Rogo, Penny, photographer. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Flight Crew Training Building, Southeast corner of Second Street/Avenue E intersection, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL. Cape Canaveral Brevard County Florida, 1933. editeds by Deming, Joan, Liston, Elaine, Naylor, Barbara, English, Nancy, and Provancha, Jane Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/fl0790/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, C., Broadfoot & Mathis Architects-Engineers, Army Corps Of Engineers, Smith & Sapp Construction Company, Broadfoot, A. R., North American Aviation [...] Slovinac, P., Rogo, P., photographer, Deming, J., Liston, E., Naylor, B., English, N. & Provancha, J., eds. (1933) Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Flight Crew Training Building, Southeast corner of Second Street/Avenue E intersection, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL. Cape Canaveral Brevard County Florida, 1933. Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/fl0790/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, et al., photographer by Rogo, Penny. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Flight Crew Training Building, Southeast corner of Second Street/Avenue E intersection, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL. ed by Deming, Joan, et al Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/fl0790/>.