A space vehicle is the combination of a spacecraft and its launch vehicle which carries it into space. The earliest space vehicles were expendable launch systems, using a single or multistage rocket t
Apollo/Saturn V, the largest and heaviest space vehicle brought into operational status as of May 2022[update].
A mobile launcher platform is a structure used to support a large multistage space vehicle. The vehicle is assembled vertically in an integration facility, such as the Vehicle Assembly Building, and t
The Shuttle-era Mobile Launcher Platform-1 on top of a crawler-transporter
The three Mobile Launchers used for Saturn V
Space Shuttle Atlantis is carried atop MLP-1 in the lead-up to STS-79
Space Shuttle Atlantis is carried atop MLP-2 in the lead-up to STS-117