Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Vandenburg Lauch Site
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.171358.436@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <47679458.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 17:13:58 GMT

In article <47679458.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> waisnor_r@apollo.HP.COM (Robert Waisnor) writes:
>Is the west coast launch site ever going to be used for 
>shuttle launches?  I heard that NASA and/or the air force
>abandoned the site after the Challenger mission. 

Yet another Frequently Asked Question, sigh...  (The sigh is directed not
at the questioner, but at our largely-useless f-a-q list.)

The Vandenberg shuttle pad is theoretically only mothballed.  There are no
plans to use it, but in principle it could be revived.  It won't be.  There
are too few missions interested in using it, and it would cost too much to
revive it, cure some minor technical problems, and operate it.
-- 
1755 EST, Dec 14, 1972:  human |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
exploration of space terminates| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu