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Vehicle Assembly Building

building used by NASA to assemble rockets at the Kennedy Space Center
Place vertical_integration_facility Q901058
Vehicle Assembly Building
Ben Smegelsky · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

11 properties

Designation

Instance of
vertical integration facility, skyscraper, cubic building[4][5]
Heritage designation
National Register of Historic Places listed place, Historic Civil Engineering Landmark[10][11]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 28.586°, -80.651°[9]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Brevard County[2]

Period and style

Inception
1966[8]
Height
+160.30, +525.91[14][15]
More facts +4
Part of
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39[7]
Length
+218.39, +716.51[12][13]
Main building contractor
Morrison-Knudsen[6]
Width
+157.89, +518.01[16][17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Vehicle Assembly Building en VAB en Vertical Assembly Building ar مبنى تجهيز المركبات cs VAB cs Vertical Assembly Building de Vertical Assembly Building de VAB es Edificio de Ensamble de Vehiculos es Edificio de ensamble de vehículos fi Vertical Assembly Building hi व्हीकल असेंबली बिल्डिंग hu VAB hu Jármű összeszerelő épület hu Vertical Assembly Building it VAB it Vertical Assembly Building ja ロケット組立棟 ja 機体組立棟 ko 우주선 조립 건물
🔖 Identifiers · 11
ArchINFORM project ID
43959
Atlas Obscura place ID
vehicle-assembly-building
CTBUH Skyscraper Center building ID
3337
Emporis building ID
122406
Freebase ID
/m/01nnvg
NRHP reference number
99001642
OpenStreetMap way ID
26929904
SAH Archipedia building ID
FL-01-009-0003
SkyscraperPage building ID
242
Structurae structure ID
20003280
Topic's main category
Category:Vehicle Assembly Building

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🔗 Connections
Belongs to 1
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
skyscraper
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Brevard County
Part of 1
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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Summary

Vehicle Assembly Building is a vertical integration facility[1].

Related Entities

United States

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  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Heritage designation → National Register of Historic Places listed place, Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
    Located in → —
    Instance of → vertical integration facility, skyscraper, cubic building
    Country → United States
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ OpenStreetMap way ID: 26929904, Adding OSM way id claim from wikidata tag on way/26929904 in United States"
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