evp (11/01/82)
Shuttle flights from Vandenburg will all be polar shots. NASA at one time considered polar shots from Canaveral, but there was no safe place to drop the boosters or the orbiter in the event of an abort forward. The Vandenburg shots will all go south over the water. For most trajectories, there probably won't be too much of a view from L.A., because the orbiter will be too far west of the coast by that time. Ed Post, Tektronix