The Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building is a historic building on Merritt Island, Florida, United States. The five-story structure is in the Industrial Area of NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Aerial view of the Operations and Checkout building at KSC, c. 2017
The Apollo 1 crew, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, enter their spacecraft for a test in the O&C altitude chamber on October 18, 1966.
Exit door from Operations and Checkout Building connector. A nearby doorway on the adjacent north wall of the rear building is where astronauts would board the Astrovan for transport to Launch Complex 39.
Apollo 11 crew members Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin on the morning of July 16, 1969
The Multi-Payload Processing Facility is a facility at Kennedy Space Center constructed by NASA in either 1994 or 1995 and used for spacecraft and payload processing. Prior to being assigned the role
The exterior of the Multi-Payload Processing Facility
The ORFEUS-SPAS-2 satellite is prepared in the MPPF for STS-80, which launched in November 1996
The Wake Shield Facility-3 (WSF-3) is lowered into the payload canister for STS-80 in the MPPF
A payload for STS-107 awaiting transfer to the payload canister