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From: hogg@db.toronto.edu (John Hogg)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Facilities ( was : Shuttle trips to the Moon )
Message-ID: <89Jan25.095342est.9381@ois.db.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 09:53:37 EST

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?

Horizontally, the same way that they assemble all their launchers.
Among other advantages of this system, the building doesn't have to be
so big.

In the December issue of Spaceflight are a number of pictures of Buran;
one of them shows the stacked Buran/Energia system leaving the assembly
building.  The stack is reminiscent of the Orbiter/747 combination.
-- 
John Hogg			hogg@csri.utoronto.ca
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto