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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Abbreviations (V) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		VAB is an abbreviation for Vehicle Assembly Building (formerly Vertical Assembly Building)
		VG/DG is an abbreviation for Vertical Gyro/Directional Gyro
		VVSS is an abbreviation for Vertical Volute Spring Suspension
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /N22.HTM (806 words)

	Vehicle Assembly Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vehicle (originally Vertical) Assembly Building, or VAB, is a very large building at NASA 's Kennedy Space Center, halfway between Jacksonville and Miami, and due east of Orlando on Cape Canaveral, on the Atlantic coast of Florida.
		It was originally built to vertically assemble the stages of the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo program.
		One indicator of the building's scale is that each of the stars on the American flag painted on the building is 6 feet (1.8 m) across and the stripes are large enough to drive a tour bus on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building (377 words)

	The Vehicle Assembly Building by Jim Cornish
		It was originally constructed to assembly the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo program during the late 1960's and 1970's.
		The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), the most impressive building at the spaceport, consists of a high-bay area 525 feet tall, and a low-bay area 210 feet tall, and a four story launch control center (LCC) which is connected to the high bay by an enclosed bridge.
		Assembly, or integration, of the Shuttle vehicle is completed in the largest building at KSC, and one of the largest in the world, the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB).
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/sts_assembly.htm (1108 words)

	Moonport, CH6-5
		The earliest plans for the VAB envisioned a circular assembly building with a turntable to position the transporter.
		Since a major reason for the remote assembly building was protection from the weather, operations personnel opposed the open concept.
		VAB design was again discussed at a 31 July meeting convened by Petrone.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch6-5.html (1077 words)

	NASA CENTERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Vehicle Assembly Building, built for the vertical assembly of Saturn launch vehicles, is the heart of Launch Complex 39 and was modified to support the assembly of the space shuttle.
		The external tank is hoisted vertically from the checkout cell by the 250-ton high bay crane and transferred to the mobile launcher platform in High Bay 1 or 3 for mating with the already-assembled solid rocket boosters.
		The distance from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39-A is 3.4 miles and 4.2 miles to Launch Complex 39-B. The roadway is built in three layers with an average depth of 7 feet.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/library/report/1988/centers.html (6223 words)

	FIRST STAGE
		Vertical assembly completed, the 180-ton-capacity overhead crane lifts the booster by a foreward handling ring attached to the forward skirt and returns it to horizontal position on its 435,000-pound transporter.
		The manifold assembly serves as a gaseous nitrogen central receiving and distributing center as well as a mounting block for filters, shutoff solenoid valves, a pressure regulator, a relief valve, and pressure transducers.
		Connecting the remotely located camera capsules and the flash head are the optical assemblies consisting of coupling lens attached to the ejection tube, a 9-foot length of fiber optics, and the objective lens mounted in the flash-head assembly.
	www.apollosaturn.com /s5news/p21-17.htm (6170 words)

	Chapter 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The lower roof assembly within 4 feet of the wall has not less than a 1-hour fire-resistance rating and the entire length and span of supporting elements for the rated roof assembly has a fire-resistance rating of not less than 1 hour.
		The fire-resistance rating of structural members and assemblies shall comply with the requirements for the type of construction and shall not be less than the rating required for the fire-resistance-rated assemblies supported.
		Vertical sliding or vertical rolling steel fire doors in openings through which pedestrians travel shall be heat activated or activated by smoke detectors with alarm verification.
	cnst.training.home.att.net /140ch7ibc.htm (3414 words)

	[SM3B] Servicing Mission 3B - Launch Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Afterwards, the shuttle is moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to be mated to its booster rockets.
		The Vehicle Assembly Building is one of the largest buildings in the world.
		The Shuttle Atlantis is rolled out vertically from the VAB on a crawler towards the launchpad (Jan 2001).
	sm3b.gsfc.nasa.gov /launch-info/kennedy-part2.html (593 words)

	Moonport, CH4-9
		Fear of the stresses generated in lifting a large launch vehicle from a horizontal to a vertical position was the third and decisive consideration leading to the concept's demise.
		The VAB would consist of assembly bay areas for each of the stages, with a high bay unit approximately 110 meters in height for final assembly and checkout of the vehicle.
		Buildings adjacent to the VAB would house the Apollo spacecraft and the launch control center.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch4-9.html (758 words)

	Untitled Document
		Additionally, for buildings with an occupant load of 100 or more, a main entrance capable of serving as the main exit with an egress capacity for at least one-half the total occupant load is required.
		For buildings or spaces of Use Group H-4, a minimum of two egress doorways shall be required for all rooms and spaces with an occupant load greater than 10 or in which the travel distance exceeds 75 feet.
		Exception: Vertical opening protection shall not be required for either the top or bottom of a stairway connecting not more than two floor levels when such stairway does not serve as a required means of egress and the occupant load does not exceed 12, excluding staff.
	www.state.nj.us /dca/codes/rehab/subcode/supplemental.htm (16877 words)

	Vehicle Assembly Building Fact Sheet
		When completed, the VAB will be the world's largest building in volume and will occupy eight acres of land.
		All major sections of the Apollo/ Saturn V are vertically assembled in the high-bay area.
		To maintain the protective environment of the building, doors had to be designed for these huge openings-doors that could withstand winds of 125 miles per hour and could be opened and closed in a 63 mile-per-hour wind.
	www.apollosaturn.com /vabfact/vabfact.htm (777 words)

	Vehicle Assembly Building biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The VAB is 160 meters (525 ft) tall, 218 meters (716 ft) long and 158 meters (518 ft) wide.
		One indicator of the building's scale is that each of the stars on the American flag painted on the building is 6 feet (1.8 m) across.
		The most extensive damage ever recorded occurred during Hurricane Frances in September 2004, when about 1,000 10 × 40 foot (3 × 12 m) aluminum panels were blown off the building, resulting in about 40,000 ft²; (3,700 m²) of new openings in the sides.
	vertical-assembly-building.biography.ms (298 words)

	Vehicle Assembly Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During Space shuttle build-up operations inside the VAB, integrated SRB segments are transfered from nearbay SRB assembly and checkout facilities, hoisted onto a Mobile Launcher Platform in High Bays 1 or 3 and mated together to form two complete SRB s.
		The orbiter is then towed over from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the VAB transfer aisle, raised to a vertical position, lowered onto the Mobile Launcher Platform and then mated to the rest of the stack.
		When assembly and checkout is complete, the crawler-transporter enters the High Bay, picks up the platform and assembled shuttle vehicle and carries them to the launch pad.
	science.ksc.nasa.gov /facilities/vab.html (465 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ATM was scheduled to be moved in January 1973 to the Vehicle Assembly Building for mating with the OWS atop the two-stage Saturn V launch vehicle.
		The Skylab orbital assembly- consisting of the OWS, the ATM, and the AM/MDA-was scheduled to be launched from Pad A of Launch Complex 39 in late April 1973.
		The OWS was moved to the Vertical Assembly Building and stacked on 29 September.
	www.astronautix.com /flights/skylab1.htm (21952 words)

	VAB - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		VAB is an three-letter acronym with multiple meanings, including:
		the Vehicle Assembly Building, a large building belonging to NASA (originally known as the Vertical Assembly Building)
		If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
	www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=VAB (85 words)

	Russian cosmodrome roof collapses
		I got news for ya, folks....NASA's Vertical Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center is in similar condition.
		The term VAB is used for the massive building which is prominent in press reports from KSC.
		Since Shuttle is not stacked in a "verticle" fashion, the acronym because "Vehicle" assembly building.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/682249/posts (873 words)

	Susan's 2020 Hindsight : Touring Kennedy Space Center
		The most imposing building at KSC is the VAB— currently called the vehicle assembly building, formerly called the vertical assembly building.
		It used to be the largest building in the world (in terms of cubic feet of space); the Saturn rockets of the Apollo missions stood straight up inside of the building.
		The VAB is where the shuttle is brought after processing (which takes place in one of three other buildings nearby), and it's hoisted on a crane to an upright position and payloads are placed in the cargo bay.
	www.2020hindsight.org /2002/05/29.html (696 words)

	Arianespace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Integration of the launcher for Flight 148 is now underway in the Ariane 4 vertical assembly building at Europe’s Spaceport.
		Flight 148’s mission startup followed last Thursday’s rollout of the nearly complete launcher for Flight 147, opening the final assembly building for the subsequent Ariane 4 mission.
		The first stage for Flight 148’s Ariane 4 is rotated upward inside the vertical assembly building.
	www.arianespace.com /site/news/missionlog/mission_log_64.html (211 words)

	History of Energia-Buran facilities in Baikonur
		However, the problems of construction of a more than 100 meters tall assembly building, coupled with the difficulties of maintaining the stabilization of the giant structure during transportation, forced to abandon the idea.
		The wheels of the tower were designed to withstand 200 tons of vertical pressure and 40 tons of sideways pressure.
		RKK Energia also uses the same building to process its Block D upper stages flying on top of the Proton rocket.
	www.russianspaceweb.com /baikonur_energia_history.html (2077 words)

	Vabis VAB (armoured Personnel Carrier) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
		VAB VAB is an three-letter acronym with multiple meanings, including: the Vehicle Assembly Building, a large building belonging to NASA (originally known as the Vertical Assembly Building) a French armoured personnel carrier ( VAB (armoured personnel carrier)
		VAB (armoured personnel carrier) General Characteristics (VAB) Length:5.
	www.masterliness.com /a/VAB.htm (196 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Apollo Missions - Earthbound Support Systems
		At the start of the 21st Century the VAB and launch complex is still in use for the assembly and launching of the Space Orbiter.
		Two 250-ton cranes span the VAB's four assembly bays and were used to raise the Saturn stages from horizontal to the vertical and to stack them one on another.
		Its function was to facilitate the vertical assembly of the Saturn/Apollo stack with a service tower on top of a mobile launch pad.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1109954 (2068 words)

	[No title]
		Across the country in the Saturn V program North American Aviation's SandID began transfer of the S-II-S stage from the vertical assembly building at Seal Beach to the structural test tower, a task completed on February 3.
		Technicians at Michoud on March 24 installed the S-IC-D thrust structure in the Vertical Assembly Building.
		SandID activity during April included installation and checkout of electro-mechanical mockup systems, beginning vertical assembly of S-II-F, and the first test to ultimate load on the S-II-S/D. In April also, NASA modified a Boeing contract to provide engineering services and instrumentation for the Saturn V dynamic test program.
	history.nasa.gov /MHR-5/part-6.htm (5138 words)

	NASA - Space Shuttle External Tank Slated to Fly Next Spring Ready for Foam Spray on Intertank; A Major Step to Return ...
		Workers at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have transferred External Tank 120 -- the Space Shuttle External Tank slated for the launch of the orbiter Discovery next spring -- into the facility's vehicle assembly building.
		The tank is erected vertically so that foam insulation can be applied on the liquid hydrogen tank-to-intertank flange area, a tank structural connection point.
		Image right: External Tank 120 is vertical and ready to enter Cell A of the Vertical Assembly Building at Michoud Assembly Facility.
	www.nasa.gov /news/highlights/et_foam.html (344 words)

	NASA Quest > Space Team Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is lifted off the transporter to raise it to a vertical position.
		Join Mike Ciannilli as he takes you inside the VAB and gives you a little of the sense of the enormity of everything inside as he gets up close to a stack that is waiting for the orbiter to arrive.
		Michael Ciannilli monitors all of the systems on the orbiter as they are tested, and addresses any problems that occur at that time.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /space/events/ksc99/dec (855 words)

	SPACE SHUTTLE CHRONOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		July 17 Discovery ( OV-103) from Vehicle Assembly Building to Orbiter Processing Facility for reconfiguration of payload bay for remanifest of payloads
		March 4 Challenger ( OV-099) rollback from Launch Complex 39-A to Vehicle Assembly Building for demate due to a timing problem with the TDRS -B satellite.
		March 7 Challenger ( OV-099) transferred from Vehicle Assembly Building to Orbiter Processing Facility at KSC for remanifest of payload bay from 51-E to 51-B mission
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/library/report/1988/sts-cron.html (7067 words)

	Acronyms V
		VAB - Vehicle Assembly Building /also Vertical Assembly Building/ (KSC; Saturn 5; STS; NASA; 30 SW) {eng}
		VATA - Vertical Assembly and Test Area {eng}
		VMS - Vertical Motion Simulator (ISS; NASA) {eng}
	www.lib.cas.cz /www/space.40/ACRONYMS/TACRON-V.HTM (2143 words)

	Scotsmist Personal Computer Support Appendix - Acronyms V
		Some of the pages are quite long and may take a few moments to load if you use a modem.
		VAB Vehicle Assembly Building (formerly Vertical Assembly Building) [Space]
		VandH Vertical and Horizontal (CO coordinate tape) [Telephony]
	www.scotsmist.co.uk /acronyms_v.html (140 words)

	Space Station User's Guide \| SpaceRef
		July 30 Discovery ( OV-103) transferred from Orbiter Processing Facility to Vehicle Assembly Building for mating, KSC
		July 31 Atlantis ( OV-104) transferred from Vehicle Assembly Building High Bay 2 to Orbiter Processing Facility, KSC
		6 Discovery ( OV-103) mated 51-I, transported from Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39-A, KSC
	www.spaceref.com /shuttle/newsref/sts-cron.html (7359 words)

	Comtek Systems VFA-4 Four Square Antenna Vertical Feedpoint Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Comtek Systems VFA-4 Four Square Antenna Vertical Feedpoint Assembly
		For those building their aluminum vertical 4-Square or 2 element phased arrays, this is just what you've been looking for.
		These feedpoint assemblies ease the task of attaching a coaxial cable to your aluminum tubing.
	www.comteksystems.com /vfa4.html (62 words)

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