Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!bloom-beacon!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jpl-devvax!leem 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> Reply-To: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger) Distribution: na Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 31 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. :-- :------------- :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 "I'm the NRA" "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin 1759 |Lee F. Mellinger Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA |4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 818/393-0516 FTS 977-0516 |{ames!cit-vax,}!elroy!jpl-devvax!leem leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV