The LOC included Launch Complex 39, a Launch Control Center, and a 130 million cubic foot ( 3. 7 million cubic meter ) Vehicle Assembly Building in which the space vehicle ( launch vehicle and spacecraft ) would be assembled on a Mobile Launcher Platform and then moved by a transporter to one of several launch pads.

The rocket was returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building, the fuel tank replaced and the rocket returned to the launch pad in February in time for the scheduled launch.

When it comes to the world's largest door, there is not just one, in fact there are four and they all belong to NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.

Its Vehicle Assembly Building ( VAB ) is the fourth-largest structure in the world by volume and was the largest when completed in 1965.

* Vehicle Assembly Building – High Bay and Low Bay

Columbia spent 610 days in the Orbiter Processing Facility ( OPF ), another thirty-five days in the Vehicle Assembly Building ( VAB ), and 105 days on Pad 39A before finally lifting off.

* The Crawler-Transporter carried the Mobile Launcher Platform and the space shuttle from the Vehicle Assembly Building ( VAB ) at Launch Complex 39 to Pad A.

* Crawler-transporter, a tracked vehicle used to transport the Space Shuttle from Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39

* 3, 664, 883 m³ — volume of the NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building

The orbiter transporter was sent to KSC after the Vandenberg AFB launch site was abandoned and was used to transport the Orbiter from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building.

Example systems and applications included Manufacturing Information Database ( MIDB ), Vehicle Component Verification System ( VCVS ) and Assembly Line Diagnostic Link ( ALDL ).

For the first time in the history of the shuttle program, the shuttle stack was rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building ( VAB ), where it was destacked and the orbiter returned to the orbiter processing facility, while the suspect booster underwent repairs.

To protect from a possible explosion, the launch pads at LC-39 were located more than three miles from the Vehicle Assembly Building ; still, the sound pressure was much stronger than expected and buffeted the VAB, Launch Control Center and press buildings.

Maj. James P. Hamill co-ordinated the rail transport of said equipment with the 144th Motor Vehicle Assembly Company, from Nordhausen to Erfurt.

The Vehicle ( originally Vertical ) Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) was used to assemble and an American manned launch vehicles from 1968-2011.

A crane lowers Space Shuttle Discovery | Discovery toward the SSET and SSSRB s in high bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building for STS-124.

Space Shuttle Discovery | Discovery in the Vehicle Assembly Building waiting for a ferry flight to Washington DC for permanent Display at the Smithsonian ’ s Air and Space Museum.

NASA will begin with major repairs, code upgrades and safety improvements to the Launch Control Center, Vehicle Assembly Building ( VAB ) and the VAB Utility Annex.

* Vehicle Assembly Building at the NASA Kennedy Space Center

* Vehicle Assembly Building, High Bay and Low Bay at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs

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Services provided include Basic Life Support, Emergency Medical Services ( BLS / EMS ), NFPA Technician Level: Vehicle Extrication, Water Rescue, Confined Space, Rope Rescue, High Angle Rescue NFPA Operations Level: Ice Rescue NFPA Awareness Level: Trench Collapse, Building & Structural Collapse.

He was appointed as a full-time district official of the TGWU in 1989, later becoming National Officer of the Vehicle Building and Automotive Group, and was elected as TGWU Deputy General Secretary in 2002.

Apollo 16 was slated to be the second of the " J-missions ," an Apollo mission type featuring the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ), increased scientific capability, and lunar surface stays of three days.

" The pair's first task of the moonwalk was to unload the Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ), along with other equipment, from the Lunar Module.

This was the deployment of the Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicle ( MIRV ) system, allowing a single ICBM to deliver as many as ten separate warheads at a time.

According to Jan Nattier, the term Mahāyāna (" Great Vehicle ") was originally even an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayāna, or the " Bodhisattva Vehicle.

Vehicle steering was adversely affected.

As well as this it was also hoped to dock with the Agena Target Vehicle from the Gemini 8 mission.

The sequence of terms then began with Bodhisattvayāna, which was given the epithet Mahāyāna (" Great Vehicle ").

The first model, the HMMWV ( High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle ), was built in a variety of military-based equipment and versions.

The most widely-held theory is that the military designation of GP begat the term Jeep and holds that the vehicle bore the designation GP ( for Government Purposes or General Purpose ), which was phonetically slurred into the word jeep, in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV ( for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle ) has become known as the humvee.

The Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ) or lunar rover was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program ( 15, 16, and 17 ) during 1971 and 1972.

Later that year he founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, which became the Oldsmobile division of General Motors in 1908, and he was also the founder of the REO Motor Car Company in 1904, both headquartered in Lansing.

In Vietnam, the M113 was often fitted with extra armament and used as an ad-hoc Infantry Fighting Vehicle.

Even more important for future developments was the Soviet BMP-1, which was the first true Infantry Fighting Vehicle ( IFV ).

Even the idea and concept behind the Ampera was rooted in Opel with Frank Weber, the former " Global Vehicle Line Executive and Global Chief Engineer electric vehicle development ," being originally an Opel employee who was moved to the USA in order to advance the development of this concept in GM's home country instead of the German outpost that is Opel.

Space Shuttle Challenger ( NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099 ) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia having been the first.

The Space Shuttle Enterprise ( NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101 ) was the first Space Shuttle orbiter.

Space Shuttle Columbia ( NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102 ) was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet.

Columbia was also scheduled to launch the X-38 V-201 Crew Return Vehicle prototype as the next mission after STS-118, until the cancellation of the project in 2002.

Space Shuttle Discovery ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103 ) is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States, and was operational from its maiden flight, STS-41-D on August 30, 1984, until its final landing during STS-133 on March 9, 2011.