Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Facilities ( was : Shuttle trips to the Moon )
Message-ID: <1989Jan25.172511.764@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 17:25:11 GMT

In article <7233@csli.STANFORD.EDU> jkl@csli.UUCP (John Kallen) writes:
>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?

It's said to be bigger in volume than the VAB.  It's not quite as
impressive, because Energia and Buran are stacked horizontally and
erected on the pad.  The transporter/erector is quite something;
talk about heavy machinery...
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