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  2. Vehicle Assembly Building - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Crawler-transporter - Wikipedia

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    NASA currently uses crawler-transporter 2 to transport the Space Launch System with the Orion spacecraft atop it from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B for the Artemis missions. Early in 2016, NASA finished upgrading crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) to a "Super Crawler" for use in the Artemis program. [10]

  4. Saturn V - Wikipedia

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    The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; the lead contractors for construction of the rocket were Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM. Fifteen flight-capable vehicles ...

  5. Space Launch System core stage - Wikipedia

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    The Space Launch System core stage, or simply core stage, is the main stage of the American Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, built by The Boeing Company in the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility. At 65 m (212 ft) tall and 8.4 m (27.6 ft) in diameter, the core stage contains approximately 987 t (2,177,000 lb) of its liquid hydrogen and liquid ...

  6. Mobile launcher platform - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. NASA will roll Artemis I's SLS rocket back to VAB due to ...

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    NASA managers have decided to roll the Artemis I moon rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building after the latest Hurricane Ian forecasts.

  8. Artemis I rocket rolled back to VAB as NASA, Space Force prep ...

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    NASA teams in Florida, racing against the clock to avoid impacts from Hurricane Ian, completed rollback of the agency's massive Artemis I moon rocket. Artemis I rocket rolled back to VAB as NASA ...

  9. Space Shuttle external tank - Wikipedia

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    The Space Shuttle external tank for STS-114 on its way to the Vehicle Assembly Building. Beginning with the STS-6 mission, a lightweight ET (LWT), was introduced. This tank was used for the majority of the Shuttle flights, and was last used during the launch of the ill-fated STS-107 mission. Although tanks vary slightly in weight, each weighed ...

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