MOMENTS IN SPACE HISTORY
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The assembly building is a feat to Koller, who retired from the
Kennedy Space Center after 32 years and continued his career
at Brevard Community College in aeronautical technician
education. “It was a large undertaking,” he says. “Someone had
to figure out how to make it work right. It’s a real testimony to
the civil engineers who put it in place.”
Features that still amaze him include the 456-foot-tall doors
on the four high bays on the building’s highest section. As the
tallest doors in the world, they require 45 minutes to open or
close and enable the rockets to be stacked vertically and then
rolled to Launch Pad 39A 3.5 miles away or the 4.2 miles to
Launch Pad 39B.
Former crane operator and mechanic Daniel McKune, 73, started
at the Kennedy Space Center in 1983. He says stacking the
shuttles at their final points was like choreographing a ballet
– with two 250-ton cranes and one 175-ton crane and a lot of
people on every shift.
“You were communicating with the other operators at all
points, and you were going slow and easy,” says McKune, who
was under contract with United Space Alliance. “We took care
of everything. We operated and maintained the doors, the
platforms and cranes overhead.”
After operating cranes, he was the lead mechanic in the launch
equipment shop from 1993 until he retired in 2014. McKune,
who resides in Cocoa Beach, volunteers at Titusville’s American
Space Museum, still devoted to space and mechanics.
On the crane, he sat 456 feet high in an enclosed, airconditioned
booth.
DANIEL MCKUNE
Former crane operator Daniel McKune preserved memories with emblems
displayed on the locker he used during his career at the space center.
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