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From: paterra@cs.odu.edu (Frank C. Paterra)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Two Shuttles at Once???
Message-ID: <9981@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 89 21:59:30 GMT
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In article <355@crash.cts.com>, garym@crash.cts.com (Gary Morris) writes:
> >>... they were either going to have two shuttles in orbit at once, or were
> >>going to have one shuttle launched the day after another had landed...
> >
> Might have been practical if the launch facility at Vandenburg had ever
> been completed.
> --GaryM

I think Vandenburg was completed and the Airforce mothballed it
immediately.  It was my understanding that the post Challenger shuttle
configuration does not have enough sauce to launch anything from
Vandenburg anyway.  Does anybody have any other information?  Henry?

Frank Paterra
paterra@cs.odu.edu