[sci.astro] Mobile Launch Complex

sheppard@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ken Sheppardson) (02/14/91)

In <190@miccal.CAMPBELL.CA.US> mfoster@nova.UUCP (Michael Foster):
>In <mark.666405606@typhoon.ucar.edu> bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu (Mark Bradford):
>>
>>SIRTF: Space InfraRed Telescope Facility
>>SME: Solar Mesosphere Explorer
>
>You forgot:
>
>SLC: Space Launch Complex
>
>As you included VAFB (Vandenberg Air Force Base), I figured you wouldn't
>forget the famous (infamous?) SLC-6 (pronounced Slick-Six), the west coast
>Shuttle launch complex now in Mothballs. 

   Mothballs ? I thought it was just outside Lompoc, just north of Santa
   Barbara. Did they just move the entire base or just the SLC ?

   And where exactly is Mothballs ?

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