The Shed

Enormous building needed to assemble giant space craft or space stations. (Read the full article)

"Note also the doors on the side of the VAB; its four doors are 456 feet in heigt, and 152 feet wide at the base, tapering to 76 feet wide at the top.

(Vehicle Assembly Building doors and Saturn V)

They were designed to permit the standing exit of a fully assembled Saturn V (shown at left in the above picture)."
(Bill, Chief Technovelgist 9/22/2006 12:25:27 AM )

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