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From: sheppard@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ken  Sheppardson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Facilities ( was : Shuttle trips to the Moon )
Message-ID: <410e40c4.5627@dl5627.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 89 13:12:00 GMT
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In article <7233@csli.STANFORD.EDU>, jkl@csli.STANFORD.EDU (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?
> 


I believe Buran is assembled HORIZONTALY and erected at the pad, which
is traditional for Soviet spacecraft. 
 
Right ?

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                                             Ken Sheppardson                   
                                             Aerospace Engineering Department  
                                             University of Michigan