You would think that NASA’s most off limits room would be somewhere deep underground, and that would be somewhat correct. The Rubber Room, the nickname given to the emergency egress bunkers, is located 40-feet beneath the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.
The two that exist today were built in the 1960s for the Apollo program, and designed to provide a safe escape for personnel on the launch pad in the event of an imminent explosion of the rocket. Both are designed to withstand the explosion of a fully fueled Saturn V rocket on the pad above, with room for up to 20 people for 24 hours. Getting to these bunkers required personnel to use a 200-foot slide chute that began at an opening on the surface of the launch pad. At the bottom of this chute is a small rubber-padded antechamber outside of the blast room.
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