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美国国会参议员詹姆斯·塞沙尔致信国防部长温伯格,谈到关于范登堡基地是用于发射军用航天飞机,还是发射CELV(一种一次使用的成本低又较安全的运载工具)的问题。按国防部的想法,用航天飞机从范登堡空军基地发射极轨道军用有效载荷,而现在(在挑战者号出故障之后),有人提出要用一次使用的运载工具(CELV)取代航天飞机向极轨道发射重型军用有效载荷。参议员塞沙尔于今年6月份视察了范登堡空军基地的航天飞机发射设备。他认为,为确保国防部有效载荷进入宇宙空间,应利用西海岸的这个发射
Senate James Senchall, the United States Congressman, wrote to Defense Minister Weinberger about whether the Vandenberg base was used to launch a military space shuttle or to launch a CELV (a low cost and safer vehicle for a single use) The problem. According to the idea of the Defense Ministry, a space shuttle was used to launch a polar orbital military payload from Vandenberg Air Force Base, and now (after the Challenger’s failure) it has been proposed to replace the space shuttle with a one-off (CELV) Polar orbital launch heavy military payload. Senator Sebaschau visited the space shuttle launch facility at Vandenberg AFB in June this year. In his opinion, to ensure that the Department of Defense payload enters space, this launch of the West Coast should be utilized