Vehicle Assembly Building - Cape Canaveral, FL - Skyscrapers on Waymarking.com

Taken from Wikipedia, "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 mobile launcher platforms used by NASA. As of March 2022, the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was assembled inside in preparation for the Artemis 1 mission, launched on November 16, 2022.

At 129,428,000 cu ft (3,665,000 m3), it is the eighth-largest building in the world by volume as of 2022.[3] The building is at Launch Complex 39 at KSC, 149 miles (240 km) south of Jacksonville, 219 miles (352 km) north of Miami, and 50 miles (80 km) due east of Orlando, on Merritt Island on the Atlantic coast of Florida.

The VAB is the largest single-story building in the world was the tallest building (526 ft or 160 m) in Florida until 1974, and is the tallest building in the United States outside an urban area."

Building Name: Vehicle Assembly Building Structure Height: 526 Number of Stories: 40 Year Built: 1965 Architect/Design Firm: Max Urbahn Associates Use: Other Publicly accessible areas: Open to the public on the bus tour from the visitor center Hours: Varies Cost: $75 tour ticket Address: Kennedy Space Center, Florida The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) link: [Web Link] Style: Not listed Building Website: Not listed

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