Vehicle Assembly Building

Brevard County, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

Find out more

The Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Brevard County, Florida, is a monumental structure completed in 1966 to assemble and vertically stack massive space vehicle components onto mobile launcher platforms. Originally called the Vertical Assembly Building, the VAB was designed to accommodate the Saturn V, Space Shuttle, and Space Launch System rockets, most recently hosting the assembly of the first SLS rocket for the Artemis I mission, which launched in November 2022. At 160.3 meters tall and containing 3.67 million cubic meters of volume—the eighth-largest building by volume in the world—it remains the largest single-story building globally and the tallest structure outside an urban area in the United States. The building held the title of Florida's tallest building until 1974 and is recognized as a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

Built: 1966
Type: skyscraper, cubic building, vertical integration facility
Heritage: Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, National Register of Historic Places listed place
Height: 160.3 m
Place: Brevard County, United States

This building on

Architecturally similar

Location

28.58628, -80.65128