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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Acronyms
Message-ID: <2689@phred.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 89 13:32:48 GMT
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In article <12696@super.ORG> mjt@super.UUCP (Michael J. Tighe) writes:
> 
>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.
>-- 

I prefer to call it by its original name from the Apollo years:
Vertical Assembly Building.

Peter Jarvis...