Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Acronyms
Message-ID: <1989Aug10.043724.4850@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7364@bunny.GTE.COM> <1638@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <2681@phred.UUCP> <12696@super.ORG>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 04:37:24 GMT

In article <12696@super.ORG> mjt@super.UUCP (Michael J. Tighe) writes:
>... On all of the [KSC] 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.

The change from Vertical to Vehicle came midway through Apollo, so it's
not surprising that the older term has vanished from official sources
by now.
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