Really, it's a rocket garage on a super massive scale − the VAB (short for Vehicle Assembly Building) is made up of four towering high bays in a giant one-story structure. Even though it is only ...

The Vehicle Assembly Building has been used since the 1960s to build the rockets before they lift off from the launch pad. It has been primarily used by 3 rockets: the Saturn V, the Space Shuttle ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Officials at NASA announced ...

in High Bay 3 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. | Credit: NASA The next rocket to launch astronauts to the moon is nearing completion. NASA's Space ...

where final assembly will be moving into High Bay 2 of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at KSC. The large volume of the VAB High Bay will allow Boeing to store completed Core Stages without ...

Those occupants were the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule, which were both transported back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for shelter. For a brief moment though ...

Picture the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building, with its 4.8 million cubic yards of space under a 550-foot high ceiling covering eight acres of floor space — the massive building constructed to help ...

To celebrate, the Artemis 2 insignia was projected that night onto the exterior of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The release of the mission ...

The 212-foot-tall core stage was placed Sunday alongside two solid rocket boosters at Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building — meaning the rocket that provides the oomph for what ...