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Space Shuttle Program Historic Properties 5-2
NASA Kennedy Space Center
5.3 Survey and Evaluation of NASA-owned Facilities Within CCAFS
In 2001, a historical/architectural survey of the 106 NASA-owned facilities located
within CCAFS was conducted by ACI (ACI 2001). Prior investigations included the 1984
National Historic Landmark (NHL) Federal Agency Nomination prepared for the U.S.
Air Force at the direction of the Secretary of the Interior’s Advisory Board. CCAFS was
listed as an NHL on April 16, 1984. The nomination, which highlighted the national
significance of those principal facilities associated with the manned and unmanned U.S.
Space Program, included Launch Pads 5, 6, 13, 14, 19, 26 and 34, as well as the original
MCC. Twenty-eight NASA-controlled facilities at CCAFS were included as part of the
1984 NHL District.
A subsequent survey by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in
1994 recommended that LC 1/2, 3/4, 17, 21/22, 25, and 31/32 be considered eligible for
the NRHP under Criteria A and/or C. Of the NRHP-eligible properties, only two, Launch
Silo 31-B and Launch Silo 32-B were in NASA ownership.
Thus, as a result of these studies, of the total 106 NASA-owned facilities at CCAFS, 28
were included as part of the 1984 NHL District, listed in April 1984, and two were
considered NRHP-eligible. ACI concluded the 2001 study with the recommendation that
all of the facilities located within the CCAFS Industrial Area, both Air Force and NASAowned,
be reevaluated as a district when the majority attain 50 years of age (ACI 2001).
October 2007
Archaeological Consultants, Inc.