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Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6, pronounced "Slick Six") is a launch pad and associated support infrastructure at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Construction at the site began in 1966, but the first launch didn't occur until 1995 due to program cancellations and subsequent repurposing efforts.
STS-62-A was a planned NASA Space Shuttle mission to deliver a reconnaissance payload (Teal Ruby) into polar orbit.It was expected to use Discovery.It would have been the first crewed launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and the first crewed mission to go into polar orbit.
Vandenberg AFB, US: 1: Carl Reich, 49, of Lompoc, CA, an iron worker employed by Hensel Phelps Construction of Greeley, CO, fell 252 feet (77 m) from the mobile service structure of the SLC-6 Space Shuttle launch complex, while bolting a platform onto the structure. [127] [128] 30 January 1986: Titusville, FL, US 1 STS-51-L
Highway 1 was closed following the fatal crash.
Had a TAL situation arisen during a launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Hao and Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean would have been the TAL sites, as would Andersen AFB, Guam with one of the longest concrete runways in the world. [19] [20] RAF Fairford was the only transoceanic abort landing site for NASA's Space Shuttle in the UK. As well as ...
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Vandenberg Space Force Base (IATA: VBG, ICAO: KVBG, FAA LID: VBG), previously Vandenberg Air Force Base, is a United States Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California. Established in 1941, Vandenberg Space Force Base is a space launch base, launching spacecraft from the Western Range , and also performs missile testing.
A month earlier, Zhou allegedly searched "Vandenberg Space Force Base Drone Rules” on his phone, then told another person in a message that he could hack his drone to reach higher than it could ...