McKim & Creed provided MEP and structural design services for the new Astrobotic facility. Astrobotic is a Pittsburgh-based firm that designs and builds lunar landers and rovers for space exploration. The new facility is located in a high-visibility location that can be seen from many directions in the downtown Pittsburgh area. The original building was constructed in the 1950s to serve as a post office maintenance facility. The new facility incorporated as many of the existing MEP systems as possible, supplemented with special systems for clean rooms, a mission control center and meeting rooms. The facility includes a vacuum chamber capable of holding prototype equipment in conditions that simulate the vacuum and near-absolute-zero temperatures of space. Another area will allow for test flight of lunar landers that will operate similarly to drones. The landers will carry small rovers that will be released to the surface of the moon. The navigation of the equipment will be controlled from the mission control room of the client’s new facility. This facility also includes 15,000 SF of cleanroom space.