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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Acronyms
Message-ID: <5496@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 1 Aug 89 19:10:45 GMT
References: <131@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> <1625@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <7364@bunny.GTE.COM>
Reply-To: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
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In article <7364@bunny.GTE.COM> s914@GTE.COM (Lawrence Bilker) writes:
:In article <1625@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>, mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes:
:> VAB	Vertical Assembly Building	(where the Orbiter has the boosters and tank
:> 					stuck onto it)
:
: I always thought VAB meant Vehicle Assembly Building (like OV)
:
:
: - LAB

It was originaly called the Vertical Assembly Building, somewhere along
the line (I don't know when), the name was changed.


Lee

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