{"id":18076,"date":"2023-03-18T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?page_id=18076"},"modified":"2023-03-21T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:17:41","slug":"vandenberg-and-slick-six","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/about\/memoirs\/working-at-the-rocket-factory-for-30-years\/vandenberg-and-slick-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandenberg and Slick Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was able to attend a field trip for Rocketdyne employees to a new, under-construction, shuttle launch site an Vandenberg Air Force Base, on the California coast northwest of Santa Barbara. This would have been mid- or late-1980s. The site was called Space Launch Complex 6, SLC-6 (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vandenberg_Space_Launch_Complex_6<\/a>), pronounced \u201cslick six.\u201d It was planned to be a second site to launch space shuttles, in addition to Kennedy, but for various reasons was never completed. I recall this visit especially because I had my camera with me and took a bunch of photos, all of which are scanned or photographed and shown below. The occasion was the launch, mid-day, of satellite-carrying rocket. Then we got a tour of the construction site. And then got back on the bus to ride back to Canoga Park.<\/p>\n

Arriving at the area to view the launch.<\/p>\n

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The launch.<\/p>\n

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In these two note the shadows of the rocket contrail.<\/p>\n

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Then, 10 scanned photos of the under-construction launch facility. I have no idea what these various facilities are, except that in a couple photos you can see the exhaust vents where smoke from the launch would funnel out to the side, away from the launch tower itself.<\/p>\n

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