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Warpy

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1. I've been inside the VAB
Thu Jun 9, 2022, 11:40 PM
Jun 2022

which is where they put the Saturn V rocket they used for the moon launches together. That building is so huge that there were clouds up near the top and a fine mist was falling that day and apparently that's not an uncommon occurrence. You can see that thing miles away up and down the east coast of Florida.

The space shuttle assembly looked dinky in comparison to the size of that building, which also sported the biggest roll up door I've also ever seen.

I wouldn't think the old mobile gantry and trackway would still work 50 years later, not in Florida. So this will be over budget and late, so what else is new?

I'm just surprised we ever got there, at all. I remember what the tech was like back then.

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