<Li> Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) </Li> <Li> Research and Technology </Li> <Li> International Space Station Payloads </Li> <P> The KSC Industrial Area, where many of the center's support facilities are located, is 5 miles (8 km) south of LC - 39 . It includes the Headquarters Building, the Operations and Checkout Building and the Central Instrumentation Facility . The astronaut crew quarters are in the O&C; before it was completed, the astronaut crew quarters were located in Hangar S at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex (now CCAFS). Located as KSC was the Merritt Island Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network station (MILA), a key radio communications and spacecraft tracking complex . </P>

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