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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 04/19/91 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <3384@phred.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 91 13:53:16 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.014200.4520@news.arc.nasa.gov> <267@rml.UUCP> <1991Apr23.114242.12469@pbs.org> <3380@phred.UUCP> <1991Apr25.161031.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
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In article <1991Apr25.161031.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> oliver@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>
>First the VAB is on the NASA Kennedy Space Center which is on
>Merrit Island.  Second, NASA Reference Publication 1059 Revised lists VAB as
>the Vehicle Assembly Building.  There is a VIB which is the Vertical Integration
>Building used for stacking Titans and it is located on Cape Canaveral Air Force
>Station.
>Pat Oliver -  	Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company at NASA JSC

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It may list it that way now, but its original name was
Vertical Assembly Building when they used to stack Saturn V's there.


Peter Jarvis......Physio-Control, Redmond, Washington