Re: VAB suffers some damage -- threat to contents

From: Henry Spencer (henry_at_spsystems.net)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:07:21 GMT

In article <MeM0d.22397$2s.16723@twister.nyroc.rr.com>,
Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) <mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com> wrote:
>> http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/misc/apmisc-launch-art.jpg
>
>Now that painting ahs two very interesting details......
>"turn-around" T's for the crawler-transporters at various spots.

That's a pretty early illustration, so it may have been painted before
the crawlers became fully double-ended.

>And a building north of the VAB.
>(I've seen reference to such a building, but can't remember what was planned
>there... perhaps a SRB facility for later Saturn V designs?

That's probably the NAB, the Nuclear Assembly Building, for preliminary
assembly work on nuclear stages. A number of early maps show the NAB
around that area. 

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