Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

28 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, deploying 22 Starlink satellites. That was the 47 th and final orbital launch of the year from Vandenberg, a cadence not seen from that facility ...

UPDATE (6:15 p.m.) — The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched out of Vandenberg Space Force Base just after 5:58 p.m. The first-stage booster successfully landed on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean a ...

Credit: Todd Master photo Dense fog kept some spectators from seeing the Falcon 9 rocket making its final liftoff of 2024 from Vandenberg ... at 5:58 p.m. from Space Launch Complex-4 to deliver ...