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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Acronyms
Keywords: VAB
Message-ID: <5542@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 10 Aug 89 14:27:26 GMT
References: <7364@bunny.GTE.COM> <1638@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <2681@phred.UUCP> <12696@super.ORG>
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In article <12696@super.ORG> mjt@super.UUCP (Michael J. Tighe) writes:
:In article <2681@phred.UUCP> petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) writes:
:>
:>You didn't goof. It *is* called the Vertical Assembly Building as it was
:>named for the Saturn rocket assemblies in the Apollo days.
: 
:I have recently returned from KSC. While there, I decided to
:investigate this acronym problem. On all of the maps,
:guides, etc., the VAB is called Vehicle Assembly Building.
:Not once did I see or hear anyone refer to it as the
:Vertical Assembly Building.
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:-------------
:Michael Tighe
:internet: mjt@super.org
:   uunet: ...!uunet!super!mjt

To repeat, the original name was Vertical Assembly Building, some time
later it was CHANGED to Vehicle Assembly Building.


Lee

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