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[b]ULA Delta IV Heavy launches from SLC-6[/b] On January 20, 2011 at 1:10 p.m. PST (2110 GMT), a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy will launch the National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-49 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch will be staged from Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6, pronounced "slick-six"), the same pad once built for Department of Defense-dedicated space shuttle missions. In the wake of the 1986 Challenger accident, SLC-6's use as a shuttle launch pad was cancelled, but a year earlier, Enterprise was brought out to conduct fit checks. In their lead-up to covering the NROL-49 launch [URL=http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d352/status.html]live from Vandenberg[/URL], Spaceflight Now has published a series of photo galleries documenting "The California space shuttle." [i]So check out these comprehensive photo collections that document Enterprise's time at Vandenberg beginning with a tour of the shuttle [URL=http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d352/omcf/]inside its hangar[/URL] on North Vandenberg. The shuttle then took [URL=http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d352/rollover/]a road trip[/URL] over Vandenberg's hilly terrain and reached [URL=http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d352/orbiter/]Space Launch Complex 6[/URL] for attachment to the external fuel tank and solid rocket motors at the pad. Once the vehicle was put together, the pad structures were retracted [URL=http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d352/enterprise/]to unveil the fully assembled shuttle[/URL]. There's even a page of [URL=http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d352/shuttlenight/]nighttime views[/URL] with Enterprise. The launch control center was located right at the pad, too. [URL=http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d352/lcc/]Take a look inside[/URL]. And one last page with more beautiful views of the [URL=http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d352/slc6shuttle/]West Coast space shuttle[/URL].[/i]
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