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 ...

NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida was used to assemble and house American-crewed launch vehicles from 1968 to 2011. At 3,664,883 cubic meters, it is one of the largest buildings in the world by volume.

2024年11月15日 · The massive Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), standing 525 feet high, has supported human spaceflight activities for more than 50 years and provides capability to support a versatile array of operations well into the future. It is the largest vehicle integration facility in the space industry, with connectivity to KSC’s launch control centers ...

1. The World’s Largest Doors. The VAB high bay telescoping doors are the largest doors in the world at 456 feet. These consist of 4 door panels that move left-right and 7 door panels that move up and down. It takes about 45 minutes to completely open or close them.

2010年1月6日 · From this building, NASA's space-bound vehicles leave through one of the building's four doors. The doors, which are the largest in the world, each measure 139 meters (456 feet) high. While...

One of the VABs most notable features is its 456-foot-high doors. Designed to accommodate a fully assembled Saturn V, the T-shaped doors are 152 feet wide at the base and taper to 76 feet wide...

STS-36 Atlantis, OV-104, rollout is framed in a VAB door opening at KSC Credit: NASA Classified mission in 62 degree orbit, the highest inclination orbit ever flown by an American mission.

The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is one of the largest buildings in the world. It was originally built for assembly of Apollo/Saturn vehicles and was later modified to support Space Shuttle operations.

2009年12月11日 · Re: Vehicle Assembly Building doors « Reply #7 on: 12/09/2009 09:53 pm » A thought, the low building on the side of the VAB (launch control center) would make a great scale hot frame in the...

2015年2月1日 · When I have my part in the VAB it creates a weird shadow effect that only shows up on the half of the part facing the VAB door. Also some of the edge smoothing is lost on the tubing around the bells and the cylinders under the engine.