LC-39A Rotating Service Structure

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The RSS or Rotating Service Structure provided weather protection for the Space Shuttle orbiter when it was at the pad. It also provided a clean-room facility called the Payload Changeout Room where payloads could be loaded/unloaded from the orbiter's payload bay. It also provided servicing equipment for the fuel cell cryogenic reactant storage spheres and propellant loading/unloading for the OMS/RCS and orbiter and SRB APUs.

It was demolished during 2017 as part of SpaceX's reconfiguration of the pad in preparation for Commercial Crew launches of astronauts to the ISS.
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Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39#Launch_towers
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Coordinates:   28°36'28"N   80°36'16"W
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