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blockhouse


blockhouse
The blockhouse at Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 34 (LC-34), with the service structure rising behind it, November 1960. Credit: NASA
A heavily reinforced building, designed to withstand blast and heat, which, in the early years of space exploration, contained the electronic controls and equipment for preparing and launching a rocket.


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