[net.columbia] Vandenburg flights

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