KSC LC-39A Rubber Room

Located under Launch Pads 39A and 39B at Kennedy Space Center are life support bunkers that were built so pad workers and astronauts could escape an exploding Saturn V 40ft above them if there was enough warning. Known as the “Rubber Room”, very few have had access to this secret of the Apollo Program.

This massive blast door would seal off the bunker from all the violence happening outside.
This massive blast door would seal off the bunker from all the violence happening outside.
The “Rubber Room”. With its walls and floor lined with rubber to absorb the blast of a Saturn V just 40ft overhead, crews and astronauts would arrive in this room after sliding down a steep teflon-lined chute from the pad surface.
A look down the tunnel where crews would eventually egress the tunnel to a spot 1,200 ft west of the pad.

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