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By [[2020]], the Centre was located along a private road near [[Devesham]], and was made up of low concrete buildings and a large radio telescope dish that towered over the village below. At the end of the driveway there was a large gate with a security hut. Outside the main building, there was a car park with a space reserved for [[Dorothy McShane]]. | By [[2020]], the Centre was located along a private road near [[Devesham]], and was made up of low concrete buildings and a large radio telescope dish that towered over the village below. At the end of the driveway there was a large gate with a security hut. Outside the main building, there was a car park with a space reserved for [[Dorothy McShane]]. | ||
There was a reception with twin, automatic glass doors, and a launch facility at the rear of the complex, with a large hangar. The hangar had air-tight doors and housed the [[Virgil (spacecraft)|''Virgil'']] . ([[PROSE]]: ''[[At Childhood's End (novel)| At Childhood's End]]'') | There was a reception with twin, automatic glass doors, and a launch facility at the rear of the complex, with a large hangar. The hangar had air-tight doors and housed the [[Virgil (spacecraft)|''Virgil'']]. Before the probe was launched, there was a support gantry around the second-stage engine around 80 metres up that was only accessible by a small, fast moving service lift. On the gantry, there was a workstation which [[Sam O'Connor]] often placed her laptop on. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[At Childhood's End (novel)| At Childhood's End]]'') | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||