Preliminary analysis of the period discontinuities of the Vela Pulsar observed in 1969 and 1971. The fractional change in period for the 1971 discontinuity is -0.000002, slightly less than the magnitude of the previous change. The time span between the discontinuities is 2.50 plus or minus 0.03 yr; the uncertainty is determined by the time span between observations. It is pointed out that the Vela Pulsar could very well be as old as the supernova remnant Vela X (Shklovsky, 1970), which apparently surrounds the pulsar (Brandt et al., 1971).
