Kennedy Space Center
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| At left NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center Florida. 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). This building contains 129 million cubic feet of space and covers 8 acres. More than 58,000 tons of steel were used in its construction. At Right. Launch of the Apollo / Saturn V Space Vehicle from complex 39 A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. At liftoff the 363-foot Launch Vehicle weighed 6,220,025 pounds. The First-stage engines produced 7,500,000 pounds of thrust & burnt 15 tons of fuel per seconds. |
