Prior to the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the Reagan administration had proposed launching shuttles from Vandenberg AFB on the west coast of the U.S. as well as from Cape Canaveral and planned to turn over the fleet to the air force when the second generation of shuttles became operational.
If mission STS-51-L had not ended in a CATO, how would the American space program have evolved? What type of weapons would have been developed given an increased military presence in space? And what would the Soviet response have looked like?
If mission STS-51-L had not ended in a CATO, how would the American space program have evolved? What type of weapons would have been developed given an increased military presence in space? And what would the Soviet response have looked like?