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From: nixon@cisunx.UUCP (Bill 'Deus' Nixon)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Vandenburg never to used?
Keywords: Fully operational
Message-ID: <12984@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 88 15:57:59 GMT
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Reply-To: nixon@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Bill 'Deus' Nixon)
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I thought I heard after Challenger, that Vandenburg was too risky a
launch site.  Didn't they have to modify the Shuttle Main engines in
Discovery (or maybe Atlantis) to even attempt a launch from Vandenburgh?

Also, didn't one of the early military/shuttle flights of Columbia get
into a polar orbit?  I remember on one flight that it was possible for
people up here on the East Coast to "see" the shuttle as it flew over.

Bill Nixon