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Vehicle Assembly Building with Saturn V rocket on crawlerway, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, circa 1968

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Aerial Views & PanoramasAviation
Card type
Chrome
Date
c. 1945 (Linen)
Front of Vehicle Assembly Building with Saturn V rocket on crawlerway, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, circa 1968, NASA, FL, USA, c. 1945 chrome postcard
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Back of Vehicle Assembly Building with Saturn V rocket on crawlerway, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, circa 1968, NASA, FL, USA, c. 1945 chrome postcard
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Aerial view of the massive Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, with a Saturn V rocket standing on its crawler-transporter on the crawlerway at right. Vast parking lots filled with cars surround the building, and flat coastal terrain with waterways stretches to the horizon.

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PublisherCape News Co.
N.2—CAPE NEWS CO., COCOA, FLA. NASA PHOTO CURTEICHCOLOR® 3-D NATURAL COLOR REPRODUCTION (REG. U. S. A. PAT. OFF.) POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE 6DK-1190 JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA NASA NASA'S Vehicle Assembly Bldg. (VAB) 525 ft. tall, occupying 8 acres of land, world's largest building in volume, where Apollo — Saturn Space Vehicles are assembled and prepared for Lunar Launch.
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ConditionVery good
Place mentionedNASA, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, FL
PublisherCocoa, FL
NotesChrome-era glossy color card, no white border, no printed text on front; slight edge wear. Postmark: none visible. Divided-back chrome-era Curteichcolor card (imprint 6DK-1190), glossy surface, no white border; no stamp, no address, no handwritten message — only a dealer pencil mark "#59" in the lower right corner.

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Vehicle Assembly Building with Saturn V rocket on crawlerway, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, circa 1968, postcard, c. 1945. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/vehicle-assembly-building-with-saturn-v-rocket-on-crawlerway. Accessed October 5, 2026.