Talk:Vehicle Assembly Building

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It appears that the main article has misquoted the source CNN news article about the size of the aluminum panels torn off in early September 2004. The CNN news article refers to 4'x10' panels (1000 of these would equal the 40,000 sq. ft. stated in the CNN article), whereas the Wikipedia article refers to 10'x40' panels (1000 of these would be 400,000 sq. ft., which would seem to be a large exaggeration). Perhaps this should be corrected. Norm.

I'm skeptical of the recent addition "..., NASA employees report that rain clouds form below the ceiling on very humid days". Is this meant to indicate that it actually rains within the building or just floating water vapor i.e. a "cloud". I'd also suggest that the whole sentence about the "weather system" is an urban legend.

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I was there some years ago and they told us this. I'm not sure that rain actually falls - I doubt it very much - but I could imagine that water vapour might visibly collect up near the ceiling sometimes. The building is truly immense. I think "weather system" is an exaggeration rather than an urban legend. Anyway, the official line is that something meteorological does go on in there, even if it's only a bit of mistiness overhead. — Trilobite (Talk) 03:01, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have heard about this "it could rain in there" thing for years and years. I had a friend who went to Space Camp, and they repeated this to him. I would really appreciate finding out if this is an urban legend or not, but to me it seems entirely plausible. -- Jalabi99 06:10, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

According to Boeing's website, http://www.boeing.com/commercial/news/feature/evt_tour.html, the building in which boeing builds the 747, 767, and 777 is the world's largest building by volume, at 472 million cubic feet of space. I do not know if one would consider it to be a single story building, as the VAB is claimed to be. The Boeing building has tunnels underneath it but is essentially one story.

NASA lists the VAB to enclose 129,428,000 cubic feet of space. http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/vab.html Sean 1 July, 2006

I'm removing the part about a conducting rod being removed from the top of the Saturn V. Saturn V could fit inside the building easily as a whole, and there were no rods protruding from the top of the escape tower. It was the conducting rod on top of the launch umbilical tower and it was lowered by hinges, not removed.130.234.5.138 17:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)