Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!nickw From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: San Jose area questions related to NASA-Ames/Moffett NAS Message-ID: <3335@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 23 Aug 90 17:52:47 GMT References: Organization: University of Sussex Lines: 23 From article , by Mike.McManus@FtCollins.NCR.com (Mike McManus): > In article <1990Aug3.185440.3115@cbnewsh.att.com> mrb1@cbnewsh.att.com (maurice.r.baker) writes: > > A USAF buddy of mine works in the Blue Cube, says there's some pretty neat > stuff that goes on in there (most of which he can't discuss :-). I beleive > that they coordinate space tracking and communications for the military there > (whereas the USAF has their own space command in Colorado Springs... Or is it > the other way around?). Blue Cube (aka Onizuka AFB or CSTC [ pronounced see stick"]) shares this responsibility with a new installation, CSOC ["see sock"], in Colorado Springs. Space Command is now responsible for both as far as I could tell (CRRES is controlled from there). HQ for Space Command is, I believe, in either LA (where USAF Space & Missile Systems Organization were based) or Colorado. See "The New High Ground", by Thomas Karas for more details. Nick -- Dr. Nick Watkins, Space & Plasma Physics Group, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, E.Sussex, BN1 9QH, ENGLAND JANET: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: nickw%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac