Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brazing to make the tubing more pliable. But Challenger's engines will probably not be permitted to run at full power until the problem is more thoroughly understood. The extra kick, however, will not be needed until 1985, when shuttles begin taking off with purely military cargoes from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California...
...U.S.S.R. have virtually eliminated the problem of bias. Among other things, the Soviets can launch satellites over the pole into orbit, measure the geodetic forces, and program their missiles accordingly. That is exactly what the U.S. does to complement its own east-to-west ICBM test shots from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. Furthermore, says Harold Brown, Defense Secretary in the Carter Administration and now visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington: "Since Soviet warheads are considerably more destructive than ours, they are less sensitive...
...extend the orbiter's "cross range" so that it could glide a full 1,200 miles either to the right or left of its original orbital trajectory after re-entering the atmosphere. That would enable a Florida-launched shuttle, which travels about 1,000 miles south of Vandenberg on its first circuit of the earth, to land at the military field after only one orbit-and also reduce the risk of an unwelcome descent into hostile territory in case of an abort...
...Pentagon hopes to be lofting at least some of its own shuttle flights from a military spaceport now under construction at Vandenberg Air Force Base, near Santa Barbara, Calif. The $200 million installation will include a launch pad and a new three-mile-long shuttle landing strip, as well as fuel tanks, shops and other support facilities. It will operate under the control of a new military space center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, hard by the North American Air Defense Command's underground headquarters deep in Cheyenne Mountain...
...through Washington last week people were recalling the age of Roosevelt, Acheson, Truman, Lovett, Forrestal, Kennan, Vandenberg, Eisenhower, Dulles and many more. It was a time when men and women moved in and out of Government, preserving and nurturing an attitude about U.S. participation in international affairs. More often than not they buried partisan feelings, consulted closely and hammered out lasting compromises that were clearly in the national interest. They assumed their responsibility principally out of a sense of obligation, and then because they enjoyed the work...