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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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   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 crawler transporter to the VAB for erection of a "dummy" Saturn V facilities test vehicle, which will be rolled out to the pad later in the year, but not launched.

4. 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 ...

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. Space Launch System core stage - Wikipedia

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   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. [48] CS-1 lifted in the VAB for stacking ahead of Artemis I

7. NASA's dream of a space plane could finally become reality - AOL

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   The company raised nearly $28 million to build Radian One in 2022 and told CNN that it plans to test a scale model this year. Why we need space planes. ... NASA hoped that its X-33 space plane ...

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. Remembering NASA's Viking 1 and the first images from Mars - AOL

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   By Eric Sandler On August 20, 1975 -- 39 years ago today -- NASA launched the first of two spacecraft as a part of their new Viking program and the images they captured back in the '70s and '80s ...