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T O P I C R E V I E WhlbjrIt appears Boeing developed Pad 37B for the Delta 4. Is 37A basically still there or did they destroy what little remained after the pad was originally dismantled? dtempleI believe the entire pad was dismantled - pedestal and all.Ken HavekottePad 37, now called Space Launch Complex 37, is the East Coast launch site for Boeing's Delta IV family of launch vehicles. The 130-acre site consists of a main launch pad, which is now SLC-37B, and a reserve site (the old 37A area) for potential future development. Just about the entire area has been reconstructed with hardly no traces of any old, no-longer-in-use, Saturn 1/1B facilities that were used to support 8 Saturn takeoffs from 1964-68. The new structures at SLC-37B include a 330-foot-high mobile service tower, a fixed umbilical tower, a hydraulic platform erector, and a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen storage and supply system. Nearby, but outside the pad area, is a 80,000-square-foot Delta Operations Center that houses launch control and operations functions. The new control center replaces the on-site blockhouse launch control concept that was used for the Saturns.BenThe 37 blockhouse is still in place though not used for launch.
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