Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!nickw From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle Vandenburg Lauch Site Message-ID: <1928@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 20 Dec 89 14:20:05 GMT References: <47679458.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <1989Dec14.171358.436@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: nickw@syma.susx.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) Organization: University of Sussex Lines: 12 In article <1989Dec14.171358.436@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >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 There *are* plans to use it (SLC 6) for Titan IV launches, according to an article a few months ago in Aviation Week. Ironic, as it was originally built for the Titan IIIM booster that would have launched MOL. Nick -- 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