Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site proper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!intelca!proper!mikevp From: mikevp@proper.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Discovery flight postponed again Message-ID: <1559@proper.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 02:14:53 EDT Article-I.D.: proper.1559 Posted: Tue Sep 18 02:14:53 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 00:39:40 EDT References: <543@ihlts.UUCP> Organization: Proper UNIX, San Leandro, CA Lines: 8 << This line is a figment of a deranged imagination >> I got an opportunity to visit the Vandenburg shuttle launch site about a year ago, and there just isn't any place for anyone to watch it from, whether the Air Force wants to let them or not. The launch site is on the coast, and surrounded by hills. I'm pretty sure you would get a good view of it as it rose over the hills, but the only place you could see it take off and survive is from the ocean.