European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. June 22. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 spy satellite launch May move to Florida Cape canaveral Fla. Not a secret spat shuttle Mission for the department of defense May be switched from a facility being built at Vandenburg apr in California 10 the Kennedy space Center in Florida because of the aerospace crisis a Nasa offi Cial says. That crisis started with the explosion of the space shuttle challenger last january and was exacerbated Hythe failure of several unmanned rockets delaying the vast majority of the nation s space program. Aerospace experts outside the government say that the secret shuttle Mission knot in in space1 Agency terminology As "62-b," n meant 10 lift the first of a new generation of spy satellite1, Mio orbit. They say the switch which would decrease the satellite s effective Ness because of the changed orbit that would result i being considered because of the nation s shortage of spy satellites one of the options has that payload being launched Here Bob Sieck said Friday. He is director of shuttle operations at the Kennedy Center. By some estimates the new s2.8 billion Vandenburg shuttle facility May not open until 1992. Before the aerospace crisis shuttle Mission 62-b had been scheduled to lift off from Vandenburg this september but problems at the California launching site have delayed Ope rat ions there. Without identifying the nature of Llic Sec Rel payload sleek said that the outstanding question being weighed in the proposed switch is How much coverage you go