Hearings set on plans to modify former Central Coast Space Shuttle launch pad for SpaceX launches

Public hearings are set to take place a proposal to modify launch facilities at Vandenberg Space Force Base to allow SpaceX to expand from 50, to 100 rocket launches annually.

It’s a proposal to tear down a launch facility which was once meant to handle space shuttle launches. After the Challenger shuttle explosion in 1986, plans to expand shuttle launches to the West Coast from Florida were dropped.

Over the decades, the facility was modified to accommodate other rockets…

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