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From: pflueger@thewav.enet.dec.com (Free speech is a sound investment)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Vandenburg Lauch Site
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Date: 21 Dec 89 02:36:22 GMT
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In article <1989Dec14.171358.436@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes...
>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.

Henry,

What about *if* commercial launch business gets off the ground...would there
be interest in revitalizing the site ??

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