Boeing’s Seal Beach location was formerly a North American Aircraft site, and later a Rockwell site, and has been used to build rocket and aircraft components and weapons systems, including an airborne laser. Two looming ten-story high-bay buildings, built to assemble the second stage for the Saturn V rockets for NASA’s Apollo program, were located across from the main campus until recently, when they were torn down. They were on the grounds of the Seal Beach Weapons Station, which is the Navy’s primary shore-based munitions storage and loading location on the West Coast, with rows of more than 200 storage sheds and munition igloos covering the 5,000-acre site. Southern California aerospace companies use Seal Beach as a loading site for their satellites that are being moved to launch sites at Vandenberg or Cape Canaveral by ship or barge, often because they are too large to be flown or go by road, like the Saturn V rocket stages.