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[i]Scheduled for the summer of 1986, the flight would usher in the Air Force space shuttle era, enabling large and valuable spy satellites to be carried into orbits around Earth's poles by the winged spaceplanes. And it would bring the Navy captain's space career back to the place where he originally planned to leave the planet for space. Two decades earlier, that very site was the launch pad for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a high-flying military reconnaissance space station. But, remarkably, both projects were mothballed before Crippen ever got to blast off from the famed SLC-6 pad...[/i]
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