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The first new crew access tower to be built

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at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station since
the 1960s is taking shape as Boeing and United

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Launch Alliance work toward flights of the
CST-100 spacecraft in 2017.

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This is an extremely exciting time. It's great

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to be doing the construction after so many years of designing and the excitement

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is incredible in terms of we're putting American astronauts back on

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American rockets for the Commercial Crew Program

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and we're bringing Atlas back to its heritage from the Atlas/Mercury program.

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Workers are assembling the tiers that will

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be stacked atop each other at Space Launch
Complex 41 this year.

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It will take seven tiers to complete the 200-foot-tall
structure designed to meet the unique needs

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of astronauts and their ground support teams.

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We've added lots of features to this tower

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that you would not usually have on a normal,
everyday integration building.

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The tiers will be stacked at the launch pad

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between Atlas V liftoffs and outfitted with
wiring, elevators and emergency evacuation