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From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: VAB-madness
Summary: Reference
Keywords: VAB Vandenberg AFB Shuttle
Message-ID: <1258@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Aug 89 10:51:54 GMT
References: <2995@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Organization: University of Sussex
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In article <2995@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, mrb1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (maurice.r.baker) writes:






> 		There must be a "VAB-like" structure at Vandenberg AFB ...
 I don't think there is exactly. The vehicle was apparently to be
erected on the pad, so operations would differ from LC39 and also the
USAF Titan pads at the Cape.
> 		1.) Are there any good written references re: Shuttle
> 			launching facilities at Vandenberg ...
A brief article in Spaceflight, Vol 24, No. 5, May 1982 by G Borrowman
on "The Military Role in the Shuttle" has some details and a sketch of
the pad. If this has changed since 1982, my apologies. It was the most
recent reference to hand.

Nick


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