Vehicle Assembly Building, being assembled

As significant as the Mercury and Gemini programs were in their own right, the decade was still building toward the moon landing President Kennedy had called for. Those upcoming Apollo missions would require the use of the massive Saturn V rocket, which in turn required expansive new structures. (The Mercury astronauts headed into space atop Redstone and Atlas rockets, and the Gemini astronauts aboard Atlas and Titan rockets.) Under construction here in November 1964 is the Vehicle Assembly Building.