Tag: Jerry Ross
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‘Slick 6:’ 30 years after the hopes of a West Coast space shuttle
The shuttle Enterprise sits atop SLC-6 for “fit checks” in 1985. Credit: Air Force It was 1986 and the U.S. Air Force was on the cusp of something unprecedented in human spaceflight — launching a space shuttle crew from California and paving the way for people to fly true polar missions. Space Launch Complex 6,…