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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: space news from June 11 AW&ST
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.132429.23476@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul23.045611.8147@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Jul24.133049.16005@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 90 13:24:29 GMT

In article <1990Jul24.133049.16005@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (Brian or James) writes:
>>... This will take some juggling, as both active VAB bays
>>are already occupied...
>	It strikes me that this would be a particularly poor time to
>have a fire in the VAB [Not that there'd ever be a *good* time for one].
>...I wonder what the VAB would cost to duplicate, these days, though...

Don't even think about it...

NASA used to have an ironclad "no fuel in the VAB" rule.  They weren't too
pleased about having to handle live SRBs in there.
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