The Vertical Integration Building was a building at

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in Florida, located at the far south end of the industrial area supporting SLC-40 and SLC-41. The building was one of the facilities of the Integrate-Transfer-Launch Complex that was used to support Titan III and Titan IV launches. These expendable launch systems were operated by the

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, both at CCAFS and at

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in California from 1965 to 2005. Several Titan rockets could be vertically integrated at the same time inside the Vertical Integration Building. In that respect it was a precursor to the

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used for the Saturn V and

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. The Vertical Integration Building was dismantled in 2006.

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* * Cape Canaveral Space Force Station {{rocket-stub

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