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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. File:LUT -1 being moved to VAB - January, 1966 (48260918472 ...

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   English: The enormous Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, and the Launch Umbilical Towers seen here were constructed by NASA for one purpose… to build and launch moonships. In this January 1966 image (restored today from a faded 4"x5" NASA transparency) these structures are brand new, and launch tower #1 is being moved by a ...

4. List of spaceplanes - Wikipedia

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   Uncrewed suborbital space plane. Horizontal takeoff and landing. ... Mockup and wind tunnel models only. Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne ... 2004: Prototype: 1: First ...

5. 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.

6. List of canceled launch vehicle designs - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. SA-500F - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Saturn V dynamic test vehicle - Wikipedia

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   SA-500F was assembled in the Vehicle Assembly Building where it was mated to S-IC-F on March 28 and S-IVB-F the next day. SA-500F was completed in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), tested for stability against swaying in the wind, [35] and rolled out to the launch pad May 25, 1966, on Mobile Launcher-1 (ML-1). S-II-F/D arrives at MSFC.

9. List of NASA aircraft - Wikipedia

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   Business jet of the NASA Administrator: Active (1) 2003 - 2008 NA NASA one was a Gulfstream G-III with a seating capacity of 12 people. The jet is stored in an FAA hangar along with 3 other government planes. [32] NASA now shares a plane with FAA. Gulfstream X-54: Research, X-Planes, Proposed Armstrong Flight Research Center: Hawker Siddeley P ...