KSC's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, is a legacy from the Apollo program. It's there that the tall Saturn V launchers were assembled, as it were moved then to one of both Moon launch pads. Most of the assets of the manned Moon program are still in use today at the service of the Space Shuttle program. The shuttles are using the launch pads LC-39A and LC-39B to reach orbit, as they are are stacked to their External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters in the VAB. The VAB is high like a 52-story building, as the American flag which is painted on its wall has 6-feet wide stars -about a man's length! The stripes are big enough to drive a tour bus on each of them. The VAB is now being repaired as it had been damaged by the 2004 hurricanes, which punched out about 30,000 square feet of panels on the building. picture NASA/KSC