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September 8, 2024

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‘Slick 6:’ 30 years after the hopes of a West Coast space shuttle

February 8, 2016 Justin Ray

It was 1986 and the U.S. Air Force was on the cusp of something unprecedented in human spaceflight — launching a space shuttle crew from California and paving the way for people to fly true polar missions.