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Article #6070Re: Shuttle Vandenburg Lauch Site
From: SERRE GLENN
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 01:17
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 01:17
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Info about Vandenberg: 1) SLC-6 (Shuttle Launch Pad) was indeed mostly, if not completely, finished. 2) I get the impression that West Coast Launches were abandoned when it was decided not to go ahead with composite SRBs for the shuttle. Without the upgraded boosters, Shuttle payload would have been extremely limited. 3) Much SLC-6 AGE (Aerospace Ground Equipment) has been salvaged for use on other programs. 4) The Air Force wanted to build another Titan IV, not Titan III launch pad. 5) Yes, it would probably cost more to convert SLC-6 to a marginally useful Titan IV launch site than it would to build a new SLC-7. --All the above words are my own. --Glenn Serre serre@tramp.colorado.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!ames!ncar!boulder!tramp!serre From: serre@tramp.Colorado.EDU (SERRE GLENN) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle Vandenburg Lauch Site Message-ID: <15010@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 19 Dec 89 01:17:19 GMT References: <47679458.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <3614@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <896@xroads.UUCP> <1989Dec18.051039.24421@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: serre@tramp.Colorado.EDU (SERRE GLENN) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 20