The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

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 ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX lost communication with its spacecraft shortly after launching the mega rocket known as 'Starship'.