Vehicle Assembly Building

The Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, is a large building at NASA's 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.
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  • Type: Hangar
  • Description: building used by NASA to assemble rockets at the Kennedy Space Center
  • Also known as: “VAB” and “Vertical Assembly Building”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kennedy Space Center and Launch Control Center.

Photo: Max Siegmayer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a spaceport in , situated west of on , and is part of a region known as the "", since all of the crewed United States spacecraft are launched from the Space Coast.

Building
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Rocco A. Petrone is a four-story building at NASA's on , used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39. is situated 590 feet east of Vehicle Assembly Building.

Hangar
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
is situated 1½ miles northwest of Vehicle Assembly Building.

Vehicle Assembly Building

Latitude
28.58579° or 28° 35′ 9″ north
Longitude
-80.65098° or 80° 39′ 4″ west
Inception
1965
Height
525 feet (160 metres)
Operator
NASA
Open location code
76WXH8PX+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 26929904
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­hangar
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q901058
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Vehicle Assembly Building” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مبنى تجهيز المركبات”
  • Bengali: “যানবাহন সংযোজন ভবন”
  • Chinese: “航天器裝配大樓”
  • Czech: “VAB”
  • Czech: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Czech: “Vertical Assembly Building”
  • Dutch: “VAB”
  • Dutch: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Dutch: “Vertical Assembly Building”
  • Finnish: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Finnish: “Vertical Assembly Building”
  • French: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • German: “VAB”
  • German: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • German: “Vertical Assembly Building”
  • Hindi: “व्हीकल असेंबली बिल्डिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Jármű összeszerelő épület”
  • Hungarian: “VAB”
  • Hungarian: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Hungarian: “Vertical Assembly Building”
  • Indonesian: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Italian: “VAB”
  • Italian: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Italian: “Vertical Assembly Building”
  • Japanese: “スペースシャトル組立棟”
  • Korean: “우주선 조립 건물”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vertical Assembly Building”
  • Norwegian: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Polish: “VAB”
  • Polish: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Portuguese: “Edifício de Montagem de Veículos”
  • Portuguese: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Russian: “Здание вертикальной сборки”
  • Serbian: “Зграда за вертикалну монтажу”
  • Slovak: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Slovak: “Vertical Assembly Building”
  • Slovenian: “VAB”
  • Slovenian: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Spanish: “Edificio de ensamblaje de vehículos”
  • Spanish: “Edificio de Ensamble de Vehiculos”
  • Spanish: “Edificio de ensamble de vehículos”
  • Spanish: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Swedish: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Turkish: “Vehicle Assembly Building”
  • Ukrainian: “Корабельна збірна будівля”
  • Vietnamese: “Tòa nhà Lắp ráp Phương tiện”

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