Built in 1959, Hangar AE was originally built for a Department of Defense missile program. The facility was acquired in 1960 by NASA and modified for unmanned missions. The building contains a Class 10K horizontal laminar flow clean room complex, a telemetry ground station, an extensive communications center for data, voice and video, 3 launch vehicle data centers (LVDC), the Mission Director’s Center (MDC), and offices for payload and contractor personnel. It is located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, but maintained by NASA Kennedy Space Center.