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...damaging, but future shuttle payloads may include Star Wars technology that is a far more sensitive secret. Already one-fifth of the next 70 shuttle missions have been booked by the military. The Air Force has even built its own secret launching pad for military shuttles at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, scheduled for its first launch...
...Force, meanwhile, has been quietly setting up its own "Blue Shuttle" (named for the service's color) facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California (completion date: March 1985). On Air Force drawing boards is the "Transatmospheric Vehicle" (TAV), more popularly known as the "space fighter," designed to take off from military bases and climb into orbit to search for enemy targets. Though the military helped persuade Congress to fund the space shuttle, the Pentagon is lukewarm about the shuttle's civilian uses. Military planners would prefer that Congress use the funds to build a new generation...
...weapons program led Reagan to seek further assurances. Zhang, said one U.S. official, "blew his top." Even so, Zhang took off on a two-week tour of America's arsenal that includes F-16 assembly lines in Fort Worth and the space-shuttle complex at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base...
...Experiment," had good reason to hope for some insomnia in Moscow: his project scored its first success last week. A special interceptor rocket fired from Meek Island in the Kwajalein archipelago had struck the dummy warhead of a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that had been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California some 30 earlier. Military analyst described the collision, which pulverized both projectiles more than 100 miles above the earth's surface, as a major technological advance that would support President Reagan's controversial idea of developing strategic defenses against enemy missiles...
...last week began its own worldwide exercises, code-named Global Shield 84, designed to train bomber and missile crews for nuclear war. The maneuvers will include test firing of two Minuteman missiles from Vandenberg A.F.B., Calif., and the test launching of cruise missiles from B-52 bombers. The Pentagon said that it had notified Moscow of its plans, although the exercises "bear no relationship to any aspect of current international situations...