How Much does the VAB weigh?

[zekes]

I'm asking for a friend- I'm totally not planning on stealing it But seriously - how much does the VAB "weigh"?

[Clockwork13]

None of the KSC buildings weigh anything.

[RocketPilot573]

None of the KSC buildings weigh anything.

This. They are made of Kraken material.

[wossname]

297,418,095.773kg.

Give or take.

Slightly more if it's raining.

[windows_x_seven]

If we use a VAB as weight unit, it would weigh 1 VAB.

[8bitgammers]

the top of the VAB falls if destroyed...

i'll bet you could figure out it's mass from that...

and then just apply that to the volume of the entire VAB.

you'd have to be good at the math or something though...

[Gaarst]

The real KSC VAB is 160 m tall, 218 m long and 158 m wide, and should weigh (very) roughly 200 000 tons.

Measure KSP's VAB, do a little maths and there you go

[CalculusWarrior]

Not sure about the KSP one, but according to this NASA document, the mass of the real-world KSC is roughly 210 kilotonnes, or 2.1e8 kg. This is just the structural materials which make it up though, and likely ignores interior machinery, etc.

As rocket parts in KSP are roughly 64% of their real-world counterparts, let's assume that the mass is as well. 210*.64 is 134 kilotonnes, or in KSP terms, about 1000 Mainsails at full throttle. (minus the weight of their fuel)

I still use Mainsails as KSP units of measurements, rather than the new SLS parts.

However, in game it is affixed to Kerbin, which is locked into its orbit, meaning that moving it is impossible.