Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!ucsd!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer (OFV)) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle Vandenburg Lauch Site Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 89 17:31:41 GMT References: <47679458.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 20 In-reply-to: waisnor_r@apollo.HP.COM's message of 13 Dec 89 17:35:00 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? No, probably not. Mothballing in that climate really means abandoning. I heard that NASA and/or the air force abandoned the site after the Challenger mission. The Air Force built it, the Air Force owns it, the Air Force abandoned it. NASA would have just been a "contractor" to the Air Force for missions out of Vandenburg. -- Mary Shafer shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov or ames!elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA