Spaceports, ranges and pads
Vehicle Assembly Building
The building completed in 1966 to stack the Saturn V, the final assembly point for the space shuttle for thirty years, and upgraded for the Space Launch System [NASAVAB][WVAB].
- Entity type
- vehicle assembly building
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Spaceports, ranges and pads
- Place
- Kennedy Space Center
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1966
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1966 · 1966: Apollo program integrates at Vehicle Assembly Building (1966 onward)
- Role
- vertical integration building
- Cutoff status
- Operating
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Upgraded for the Space Launch System after the Shuttle program.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 2
- Betweenness
- 0.0036 on the full graph · 0.0027 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [NASAVAB] [WVAB]
Connections
Industrial production and service
- integrates at ←Apollo programthe Saturn V is stacked in the building completed in 1966 [NASAVAB]1966 onward
- integrates at ←Space Shuttle programorbiters are mated to the tank and boosters in the building [NASAVAB]1981 to 2011