Re: Shuttle Vandenburg Lauch Site

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From: Mary Shafer (OFV)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 17:31

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In article <47679458.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> waisnor_r@apollo.HP.COM (Robert Waisnor) writes:

   Is the west coast launch site ever going to be used for 
   shuttle launches?  

No, probably not.  Mothballing in that climate really means abandoning.

   I heard that NASA and/or the air force
   abandoned the site after the Challenger mission. 

The Air Force built it, the Air Force owns it, the Air Force abandoned it.

NASA would have just been a "contractor" to the Air Force for missions
out of Vandenburg.

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Mary Shafer  shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov or ames!elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer
         NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
                   Of course I don't speak for NASA

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