Interesting......
Jun. 27th, 2006 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundI've always found the story of SLC-6 at Vandenberg AFB, (my dad was stationed at VAFB shortly before his retirement), an interesting one. And I wish I could have seen a shuttle launch from that site. *Sigh* Maybe just as well.....
Tribal Curse Haunts Launch Pad
"Can a launch pad be cursed? Engineers laugh -- but nervously.
An Air Force launch site called SLC-6 (pronounced "Slick-6") at Vandenberg Air Force Base has become legendary in aerospace circles for an eerie history of failed programs and botched launches.
Now on Tuesday, the Boeing Corporation will tempt fate and try to launch a new spy satellite from the unlucky site -- 40 years after the Air Force built the pad over an Indian burial ground in a rocky stretch of California desert."
Tribal Curse Haunts Launch Pad
"Can a launch pad be cursed? Engineers laugh -- but nervously.
An Air Force launch site called SLC-6 (pronounced "Slick-6") at Vandenberg Air Force Base has become legendary in aerospace circles for an eerie history of failed programs and botched launches.
Now on Tuesday, the Boeing Corporation will tempt fate and try to launch a new spy satellite from the unlucky site -- 40 years after the Air Force built the pad over an Indian burial ground in a rocky stretch of California desert."
