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Vehicle Assembly Building

by PerspectX

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$99

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- Editorial Uses Allowed
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The intellectual property depicted in this model, including the brand "nasa", is not affiliated with or endorsed by the original rights holders. Editorial uses of this product are allowed, but other uses (such as within computer games) may require legal clearances from third party intellectual property owners. Learn more.

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Lightwave 6.5
Maya 6.0
3ds Max 5.1
Softimage 3.5
Cinema 4D 9

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3D Model Specifications

Product ID:	300843
Published:	Mar 8, 2006
Geometry:	Polygonal
Polygons:	107,681
Vertices:	166,478
Textures:	Yes
Materials:	Yes
Rigged:	No
Animated:	No
UV Mapped:	Yes
Unwrapped UVs:	Unknown

Artist

PerspectX

TurboSquid Member Since August 2003

Currently sells 752 products

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VAB Vehicle Assembly Building KSC Kennedy Center Cape Canaveral NASA Launch Structure Architecture Apollo Space Shuttle

Description

Description

This is a detailed model of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center, as it looked in 1969. Includes textures and some surrounding buildings, and a modest amount of interior detail. All doors, etc. are positioned and pivoted for animation.

Textures

Texture template is huge (4096x4096 many layered PSD file), please contact me if you are interested or need it.

History

The Vehicle (originally Vertical) Assembly Building, or VAB, is a very large building located at 28.586, -80.651 in NASA's Kennedy Space Center, halfway between Jacksonville and Miami, and due east of Orlando on Merritt Island, on the Atlantic coast of Florida. It is one of the world's largest buildings at third place, is the largest one-storey building in the world, and was the tallest building in Florida until 1974.

It was originally built to vertically assemble the stages of the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo program, where despite the building's huge height, the conducting rod at the tip of the Saturn V had to be removed to fit inside the building. It is now used for housing external fuel tanks and flight hardware, and the location of Orbiter mating (stacking) with the solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank to make up a complete Shuttle Transport System, called the Space Shuttle for short. Once assembled, the Shuttle Transport System is moved on the Mobile Launcher Platform and Crawler-Transporter to Launch complex 39.