The Vertical Integration Building was a building at
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, located at the far south end of the industrial area supporting
SLC-40 and
SLC-41. The building was one of the facilities of the Integrate-Transfer-Launch Complex that was used to support
Titan III and
Titan IV launches. These
expendable launch systems were operated by the
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...
, both at CCAFS and at
Vandenberg Air Force Base in California from 1965 to 2005. Several Titan rockets could be vertically integrated at the same time inside the Vertical Integration Building. In that respect it was a precursor to the
Vehicle Assembly Building used for the
Saturn V and
Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable launch system, reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. ...
.
The Vertical Integration Building was dismantled in 2006.
See also
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Horizontal Integration Facility
Sources
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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
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