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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.
Uncrewed suborbital space plane. Horizontal takeoff and landing. ... Mockup and wind tunnel models only. Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne ... 2004: Prototype: 1: First ...
SA-500F was the first complete assembly of something resembling a Saturn V, and model makers quickly patterned their designs after its paint scheme, but engineers changed the black stripe to white in the intertank section of the first stage for flight vehicles after discovering the intertank got too hot from the heat of the Sun. The third stage ...
The Mobile Launcher Platform-1 on top of a crawler-transporter. A mobile launcher platform (MLP), also known as mobile launch platform, is a structure used to support a large multistage space vehicle which is assembled (stacked) vertically in an integration facility (e.g. the Vehicle Assembly Building) and then transported by a crawler-transporter (CT) to a launch pad.
The Green Run campaign ended in May 2021, after a successful hot-fire test, and the first core stage was shipped to Kennedy Space Center and moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it underwent further work ahead of integration as the core of the first SLS. [49] CS-1 lifted in the VAB for stacking ahead of Artemis I
NASA: 2000s 2010 Ares V Lite: Jupiter: DIRECT: 2010 Falcon 1e: SpaceX: 2011 Haas: ARCAspace: Orbital Space Plane Program: NASA: 2002 2004 Falcon 5: SpaceX: 2003 2005 Galaxy Express: Galaxy Express Corporation: 2009 Ares I: NASA: 2005 2010 Ares V: Rocketplane XP: Rocketplane Kistler: 2011 Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle: NASA: 2009 ...
Because Kennedy Space Center was to receive the retired Atlantis, Space Shuttle Explorer was removed from the KSC Visitor Center on December 11, 2011, and relocated to the Vehicle Assembly Building's turn basin dock adjacent to the Launch Complex 39 Press Site. [6] The move was performed by Beyel Bros. using a 144-wheel trailer towed by truck. [7]
With the advent of the Space Shuttle program in the early 1980s, the original structure of the launch pads were remodeled for the needs of the Space Shuttle.Pad 39A hosted all Space Shuttle launches until January 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger would become the first to launch from pad 39B during the ill-fated STS-51-L mission, which ended with the destruction of Challenger and the death ...