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TIL Vandenberg Air Force Base got renamed.
Also, I'm pretty sure that one in Georgia doesn't actually exist.
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Not only does it not exist, plans to build it were scrapped a year ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceport_Camden
So I'm pretty sure it doesn't have an FAA license.
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On clear days you can see launches from Wallops along the eastern seaboard. If Apollo had launched from there they could have seen it from NYC.
I used to live in the mountains in Maryland and watched them all the time, and even saw the light from the Antares explosion.
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For a second I thought these were places to escape the country from ... you know, for reasons.
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People have certainly left the country at some of these sites. But they are (almost) always brought back so it isn't a great escape route.
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why are they mostly in the south but then there's just randomly one in alaska
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Closer to the equator means less fuel to orbit because the Earth spins fastest at the equator so you don't have to add as much delta-v.
The Alaska one I'd bet is for military ops or maybe polar satellite installations.
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The earth is widest at the equator and it spins along that axis, so it's easier / closer to get up into space.
Alaska probably just cause why not.
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They closed all the launch sites in Utah? They built the fuckin minuteman there
