Once the most voluminous building in the world, the VAB was previously used to stack the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and the space shuttles that flew for 30 years. The launch vehicle stage adapter ...

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The 39-meter (128 ft) tall pedestal allowed the smaller Saturn IB rocket to use the same facilities on the mobile launcher as the larger Saturn V. The rocket itself comprised a Saturn IB first stage ...

In 1960, von Braun became both the director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre and the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket. The very same technology that had been used in the V-2 rockets was ...