The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. After test glide and landings upon release from aircraft in 1977, the Space Shuttle began orbital flights ...

What: Falcon 9 rocket  When: 4:03 p.m. Sunday with other options until 8:03 p.m., according to SpaceX. If needed, the team has backup opportunities ...

VANDENBERG SPACE ... by the Department of the Air Force where the public is asked to provide comment on the expansion of launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base and the impact on the community.

The US Space Force’s secretive robotic space ... 37B de-orbited and landed like an aeroplane on a runway at Vandenberg Air ...

today announced that LizzieSat™-3 has arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to begin spacecraft integration in preparation for its scheduled launch and deployment into low Earth ...

UPDATE (11:54 a.m.) - Liftoff was successful and about seven-and-a-half minutes after the launch, the rocket's first stage landed back on solid ground. (Monday, Jan. 13) - SpaceX is planning to ...

Located about an hour from Santa Barbara, the small town is home to what was then called Vandenberg Air Force Base. The federal government’s burgeoning West Coast space shuttle program was set ...

Tech. Sgt. Brittany E. N. Murphy, 30th Space Wing Public Affairs / Jan 25, 2021 Jan 25, 2021 Updated Mar 16, 2021 VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE -- In Oct. 2019, Vandenberg Air Force Base was chosen as ...

Steve Daly 30th Range Management Squadron Apr 1, 2016 Apr 1, 2016 Vandenberg Air Force Base's 30th Space ... programs including tracking for the Space Shuttle on-orbit and during landings.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...