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From: gandalf@pro-canaveral.cts.com (Ken Hollis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Vandenberg Launch Pad
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Date: 16 Oct 90 04:36:09 GMT
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Greetings and Salutations:
 
>In article <471@news.nd.edu> steven@dante.helios.nd.edu writes:
>> ... can be explained due to that 62B was being launched
>>from Vandenburg and 61I from Kennedy.
>
>What ever happened to the launch pad at Vandenberg?  I seem to
>remember that one launch was made, then the pad was closed due to
>design flaws.  Is this correct?  If so, has the pad been closed
>permanently, or are there some plans to correct the problem?
>
>-- 
>Hank Ptasinski
>gumby@ucsd.edu

Vandenburg Air Force Base has never launched a shuttle.  The pad was in preps
for a shuttle launch, but was mothballed after Challenger.  Enterprise was
stacked there (for test purposes).  If I remember correctly, I heard
somewhere, possibly, something about it being converted to a Titan IV launch
pad.  By the way, I assume that we are conversing about SLC - 6 (Slick Six).

Ken Hollis

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