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This document establishes the general characteristics, performance, design, test, safety, reliability, maintainability, and quality assurance requirements for facilities, systems, and equipment intended for use at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), NASA, or other KSC-responsible locations. This document specifies the minimum requirements to provide simple, robust, safe, reliable, maintainable, environmentally compatible, and cost-effective facilities and ground support equipment (GSE) necessary to support space vehicle launch operations at KSC.

Applicability. The current revision of this document shall be applicable to the design of all new facilities and GSE. The revision of this document that was current at the time direction was issued to design, construct, manufacture, or procure the facility or GSE shall be applicable for the useful life of the hardware. Modifications of existing hardware may be done so the modified hardware complies with the revision that is current at the time directions are issued to modify the hardware.

The requirements of this document are optional for hardware used only at the manufacturing, development, or test sites prior to arrival at the launch, landing, and retrieval sites. This document applies to the design of ground-based hardware and software used to support the operations of transporting, receiving, handling, assembly, test, checkout, service, and launch of space vehicles and payloads at the launch, landing, and retrieval sites. The criteria specified in this document are recommended for high-risk programs and projects. Projects for medium- and low-risk programs may use the criteria stated herein at the discretion of the program/project office.

This document applies to facility, systems, and equipment projects accomplished by KSC contractor personnel (e.g., Space Flight Operations Contract [SFOC], Joint Base Operations Support Contract [JBOSC], Checkout and Payload Processing Services [CAPPS], Engineering Development Contract [EDC], and University-Affiliated Spaceport Technology and Development Contract [USTDC]) to the extent specified in the contracts.

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