[GOPcapitalist]

I wasn't talking about launch sites or testing areas. Jezzzz.

What's the good of having spacecraft if you don't use them?

My comment was addressed to your bizarre and baseless portrayal of a purported technological shortcoming in the south versus california. You more or less suggested we've never seen a spacecraft or anything else that is "high tech" and are accordingly amazed by automobiles. I simply note the fact that practically all of NASA's major institutions are located in the south including the launch site and mission control. You can build em all you want but without us they don't fly.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I simply note the fact that practically all of NASA's major institutions are located in the south including the launch site and mission control. You can build em all you want but without us they don't fly.

The installation is about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles California, and is presently operated by Air Force Space Command's 30th Space Wing. Vandenberg AFB is the only military base in the United States from which unmanned government and commercial satellites are launched into polar orbit. It is also the only site from which intercontinental ballistic missiles are test fired into the Pacific Ocean, and splash down at the Kwajalein Atoll within the Marshall Islands.

Sorry to pop your southern bubble

[Joe Hadenuf]

Lockheed Martin missiles & space Operations, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has successfully built and orbited more than 875 spacecraft for military, civil government and international commercial markets. The company's satellite systems are revolutionizing global communications, delivering extensive and timely weather information, exploring the universe and furnishing new data for thousands of scientists studying our Earth environment.