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  1. Vehicle Assembly Building - Wikipedia

    • The Vehicle Assembly Building (originally the Vertical Assembly Building), or VAB, is a large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, designed to assemble large pre-manufactured space vehicle components, such as the massive Saturn V, the Space Shuttle and the Space Launch System, and stack them vertically onto one of three mobile lau… See more

    History

    The VAB, completed in 1966, was originally built for the vertical assembly of the ApolloSaturn V space vehicle and was … See more

    Construction

    In 1963, NASA contracted Urbahn Architects to design and build the VAB. Construction began with driving the first steel foundation piles on Aug. 2, 1963. It was part of NASA's massive effort to send astronauts … See more

    Capabilities

    The north end of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) contains four “high bays” designed as enclosed, protected spaces for stacking rocket stages, payloads, and other components vertically on a mobile launcher platform. … See more

    Exterior

    The American flag painted on the building was the largest in the world when added in 1976 as part of United States Bicentennial celebrations, along with the star logo of the anniversary, later replaced by the NASA insignia in … See more

    Future

    Originally, after the Space Shuttle was intended to be retired in 2010, the VAB would have been renovated for stacking of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles for the Constellation program, however the Constellati… See more

     
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    The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is one of the largest buildings in the world. It was originally built for assembly of Apollo/Saturn vehicles and was later modified to support Space Shuttle operations.

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  8. The many stories of the Vehicle Assembly Building - Issuu

    BY LAURA AGUIAR N ASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building first housed the Saturn rockets and then the space shuttles. It will next serve as the final assembly and processing site for NASA’s Space...

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