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. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu