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The dark water of the turn basin at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre mirrors the night lights and the Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Control Centre, silhouetted against a post-sunset sky. The VAB is the largest single storey building in the world and the 4th largest overall by volume. Photo manipulated with Noise Ninja and Tiffen DFX.
Credit: NASA/KMC
At the moment it assembles the various components of the shuttle launch vehicle and will eventually be used to construct the Ares I & V rockets for the new Constellation program.
The unmanned Ares V rocket will be the largest (381 feet tall) and most powerful in history, capable of delivering 190 metric tonnes of payload into earth orbit or 70+ metric tonnes into lunar orbit.