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From: jkl@csli.STANFORD.EDU (John Kallen)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Facilities ( was : Shuttle trips to the Moon )
Message-ID: <7233@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 89 04:29:36 GMT
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Reply-To: jkl@csli.UUCP (John Kallen)
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In article <2453@phred.UUCP> petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) writes:
>Phil, VAB stands for Verticle Assembly Building. That is the large building
[VAB stuff deleted]
>
>Peter Jarvis........Physio-Control.......Redmond, WA.

What's a "verticle"? I would think "Vertical" Assembly Building would make
more sense :-)

The VAB is *big*, but wouldn't whatver the Soviets use to stack their
Energias be bigger?  Does anybody know anything about how they
assemble, say, Buran?

John.
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