Anonymous ID: d6db3e April 18, 2023, 4:04 p.m. No.18716677   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Callsign SLICK87. USAF Boeing E-4B Nightwatch 74-0787. PF is reminded of spaceflight lingo. Vandenburg launch complex Slick 6.

 

The 1980s dawned with America’s new space shuttle and the promise that it could carry all of the nation’s satellites to orbit. The Air Force breathed new life into SLC-6, or Slick 6, for military launches to polar orbit from the West Coast, a steadfast requirement for secret surveillance satellites.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/02/08/astronaut-interview-30-years-after-the-hopes-of-a-west-coast-space-shuttle/