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NASA Industrial Plant, Electrical Substation, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, Los Angeles County, CA
Location12214 Lakewood Boulevard,
Downey, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CA-310-A
Building/structure dates:
1955 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1999 subsequent work
Significance: Building No. 55 was built to serve as an electrical substation for the main building of the NASA Industrial Plant, in Downey California. Building 55 helped support research, testing and construction of guidance missile, aerospace propulsion, and astronaut capsule systems later used by both NASA and the military. The Downey plant developed the Apollo Command Modules, Little Joe Launch systems, jet propulsion systems, and the inertial guidance system used for both missiles and submarines as well as the Space Shuttle Atlantis, Discovery, Challenger, Colombia and Endeavor.
Subjects
Electrical Substations
Related Names
Kaplan, Mark, Historian
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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