Yeah, in 1971 we were working on getting the Congressional funding for the Space Shuttle, the LEO space station, and the manned mission to Mars in the latter half of the 1980s. Later, the Air Force was to have their own Space Shuttles, with some of them launching into Polar orbits from Vandenberg AFB.
LOL! Yup. Vandy until the eco’s managed to whine about some threatened birds or something. Unloading the external tanks at Vandy was a real treat.