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Re:Just another Apollo? Part two (2005) by BitwiseFool on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @01:34PM (#31742973)
Adding on to the Air Force thing, the shuttle program was being starved of money so the decision was made to accommodate the Air Force to get some money from the DoD. It wound up seriously disfiguring the original design of the shuttle and it never ended up doing any of the kind of missions the Air Force required the changes for.
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Re:Just another Apollo? Part two (2005) by cratermoon on Thursday June 16, 2022 @01:14AM (#31762633)
There was a shuttle launch pad at Vandenberg, SLC-6, which never saw a launch. After the loss of Challenger on STS-51-L, the Air Force gave up on the shuttle anyway, leaving it as an albatross around NASA's neck.
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