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A space shuttle stands at SLC-6

BY JUSTIN RAY

SPACEFLIGHT NOW

Posted: January 5, 2011



The space shuttle Enterprise stands fully assembled with its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters atop America's West Coast launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The prototype orbiter was stacked at Space Launch Complex 6 in 1985 to practice procedures and check out the newly constructed pad for the Air Force's planned military space shuttle missions to polar orbit. Credit: U.S. Air Force photos

































Credit: U.S. Air Force photos



