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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 launcher platforms used by NASA.
Months before a launch, the three stages of the Saturn V launch vehicle and the components of the Apollo spacecraft were brought inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and assembled, in one of four bays, into a 363-foot (111 m)-tall space vehicle on one of three Mobile Launchers (ML).
Among the unique facilities at KSC are the 525-foot (160 m) tall Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking NASA's largest rockets, the Launch Control Center, which conducts space launches at KSC, the Operations and Checkout Building, which houses the astronauts' dormitories and suit-up area, a Space Station factory, and a 3-mile (4.8 km) long ...
Large grocery distribution center, completed in 2018. Expansion to the distribution center completed in 2020. [9] [10] NASA Vehicle Assembly Building United States: 1966 Kennedy Space Center, Florida: 32,374 m 2 (348,470 sq ft) 3.66 million m 3 (130 million cu ft) Originally built to enable simultaneous assembly and shelter for four Saturn V ...
The towering "Gigabay" facility will provide 46.5 million cubic space for processing with 815,000 square feet of work space. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2026.
Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) is the first of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.The pad, along with Launch Complex 39B, was first constructed in the 1960s to accommodate the Saturn V launch vehicle, and has been used to support NASA crewed space flight missions, including the historic Apollo 11 moon landing and the Space Shuttle.
Blue Ghost hitched a ride Jan. 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo ...
Several previous test flights have encountered challenges, leading to uncertainty surrounding the objectives of NASA’s Artemis program. SpaceX Starship launch attempt on 3/6/2025