NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) in Florida is one of the most iconic and essential structures in the history of space exploration. This massive facility, located at the Kennedy Space Center, ...

NASA's Kennedy Space Center is now nearly six decades old—it was formally created on July 1, 1962 as a separate entity from Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Construction began soon after ...

(Vehicle Assembly Building) Posted: January 29, 2025 | Last updated: March 23, 2025. The VAB or Vehicle Assembly Building is where NASA has been building rockets for over half a century.

Wide-angle view looking down the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Beginning Nov. 1, 2011, the public will again be allowed in the VAB after ...

The Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is undergoing renovations to accommodate future launch vehicles. A project of Ground Systems Development and ...

Originally constructed in 1965, the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was the final assembly point for NASA's space shuttle missions during the Apollo program ...

NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is going to end behind-the-scenes tours of the huge Vehicle Assembly Building where space vehicles -- from the first Saturn V rocket in the 1960s to the last ...

NASA is holding off on a decision on whether or not to rollback Artemis I to the Vehicle Assembly Building as weather forecasts indicated more favorable conditions for a launch.

At approximately 11:45pm today, a fire was reported in the Vehicle Assembly Building. Employees were evacuated, and there are no reported injuries. The VAB is fire safe, and the Artemis I vehicle was ...

After completing a 9-mile round trip to Launch Pad 39B and back, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) mobile launcher entered the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...

Though it's where spacecraft are mated to their rockets, some engineers took advantage of the VAB's cavernous ceilings and used the building for parachute testing in the 1970s.

At 450 feet tall, the building has 129,428,000 cubic feet of internal space for constructing vehicles. It will eventually be used by NASA for construction of the future Space Launch System.