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Hundreds of construction workers, community leaders, and NASA and contractor employees were present on April 14, 1965 for a ceremony marking off the ""topping off"" of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Visible in this photo are the three Launch umbilical Towers then being constructed from which to launch the giant Saturn V rocket which would hurl Americans to the Moon during Project Apollo. The LUTs were 446-feet tall. They were modified to support the Space Shuttle program following completion of Saturn/Apollo related programs in the mid 1970s.