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NASA Industrial Plant, Generator Room, 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-B
Building/structure dates:
1983 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1999 subsequent work
Significance: Building 217 was built to house a generator for the main building of the NASA Industrial Plant, in Downey California. Building 217 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 Shuttles Atlantis, Discovery, Challenger, Columbia and Endeavor.
Subjects
Generator Houses
Related Names
Kaplan, Mark, Historian
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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