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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Acronyms
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Date: 7 Aug 89 13:25:54 GMT
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In article <1638@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes:
>Whoops! I goofed. You are, of course, absolutely correct. My mind
>must have been out to lunch; I was probably getting confused with
>VPF (Vertical Processing Facility) which is something else again

You didn't goof. It *is* called the Vertical Assembly Building as it was
named for the Saturn rocket assemblies in the Apollo days.

Peter........