Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Vandenburg Lauch Site
Message-ID: <1989Dec18.051039.24421@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <47679458.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <3614@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <896@xroads.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 89 05:10:39 GMT

In article <896@xroads.UUCP> pubtendr@xroads.UUCP (Steve Roberson) writes:
>I understand that the shuttle launch site at Vandenburg was damaged when they
>lost a Titan in a nearby launch. This was just after the Challenger accident.
>Because of the damage and the military's loss of confidence, the site was
>scrapped. Perhaps it has already been dismantled?

No, it's still there.  The Titan accident did no significant damage to the
shuttle site, although it really made a mess of its own pad and its twin.
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