========NOTE: the enclosed information has been updated and confirmed since it was first posted a year ago on the RPV BBS.================================================= Satellite spotters with 24 dollars to gamble might want to investigate a "different" source of satellite information. The SPACE & MISSILE TIMES is the post newspaper for Vandenberg Air Force Base. It is published weekly and runs about 20 to 24 pages. While most of the "news" is quite mundane, there are occasional stories about payloads or launchers that make very interesting reading. In the November 4, 1994 issue there was a three-page spread on Space Launch Complex 10 West, a 137-acre site on North Vandenberg listed on the National Register of Historic Places. SLC-10W was once used to train British crews on the Thor missile. The place is open for civilians to visit on tours! The USAF has a four-person detachment supporting SLC-10W and the other location open to the public, 395-Charlie (a Titan II launch site). The same article mentions the Western Spaceport Museum in nearby Lompoc. I've never seen this museum, but I would enjoy hearing from anyone who has been there. I hope it exists. SPACE & MISSILE TIMES back issues, postpaid, are a dollar apiece. Six months' subscription (26 issues) is $24. According to Jennifer in the subscription department, prices are the same for US or foreign addresses. Make your checks out to "The Lompoc Record", which is the newspaper in nearby Lompoc that does the actual compiling and printing. The Lompoc Record Space & Missile Times 115 North H Street Lompoc, CA 93436 ================================================ ================================================ | Sid Miller | sidneymiller@delphi.com | NH6TB | | POB 89103 | | San Angelo, Texas 76908 | | USA | ================================================