Vandenberg Space Force Base
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Sep 15, 2026
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Go Falcon.
Matthew PowellNARRATOR
At 5:11 AM on a cold January morning in 2026, Pandora lifted off from Vandenberg aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, and SpaceX had a camera pointed right at it.
Jordan KarburnGUEST
It worked out to just be this picture-perfect Hollywood scene.
Jordan KarburnGUEST
All the other spacecraft had deployed.
Martin DevlinHOST
Let's just go through them.
Martin DevlinHOST
Halfback, I'd love to see Rogan playing behind that South African, uh, forward pack, but I think Vandenberg was excellent.
Martin DevlinHOST
So I think Rogan and him are probably on an even keel.
Martin DevlinHOST
Sasha wins the number 10 jersey over whoever we've got in New Zealand at the moment, right? Their midfield, I don't care, no one is gonna convince me that Jordie Barrett and whoever you put with him is better than De Allende and Jesse Kriel.
John DayPANELIST
Um, I...
John DayPANELIST
Look, he was better in that test on the weekend, but I think he was disappointing.
John DayPANELIST
I, I, I, yeah, I, I think he was probably the second-best halfback behind Vandenberg.
John DayPANELIST
I don't think it was even there.
Joseph YaffeGUEST
I think you marry that with things like Spaceport bonds, which frankly don't get enough attention, but I think going to become a very critical resource, not only as people build out things in, in the Cape and in the Space Coast where you live, but I'm hopeful that we see that same type of expansion of on-the-ground launch infrastructure out on the Western Range, which by the way is critical because we talked about polar sun synchronous orbit.
Joseph YaffeGUEST
The, the Western Range is our pathway to polar sun sync orbit, and I'm very supportive of Vandenberg's, um, spaceport expansion plans.
Joseph YaffeGUEST
I think, you know, if it was up to me, I'd go 10X further because I think that the, the industry, both private sector and dual use, will support it.
Joseph YaffeGUEST
So looking for those opportunities to let a- all flowers bloom without denigrating first movers who have done incredible things and everybody is standing on their shoulders, but creating the opportunity for 2.0, 3.0, 4.0.
John PiepenbrinkGUEST
And they were out of Denver.
John PiepenbrinkGUEST
Our launch site was Cape Canaveral and then in Vandenberg, California.
John PiepenbrinkGUEST
So we had two launch sites.
John PiepenbrinkGUEST
I had two launch sites to get to and that factory in Denver and then there were other factories all around the country.
speaker_2NARRATOR
First-hand military incident logs.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Sworn details of massive flying building objects moving over Vandenberg Air Force Base, 2003 to 2005, and a 2023 maritime incident log from a U.S. naval vessel.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Foreign event dossiers.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Journalist George Knapp submitted historical documentation regarding severe UAP incursions over foreign military infrastructure, including a documented 1982 incident in Russia where a UAP temporarily seized control of ICBM launch codes, whistleblower retaliation submissions, documentation tracking professional retaliation, blacklisting and security clearance revocations faced by active military personnel after filing UAP safety reports, Summary totals across the House Oversight Campaign Total public sessions, three distinct hearings spanning from mid-2023 through late 2025.
Rafi RodriguezGUEST
And we ended up buying 12 rockets just in case the laws of probability will this day that one rocket may not make it.
Rafi RodriguezGUEST
Well, one didn't make it out of Vandenberg.
Rafi RodriguezGUEST
And I'm very fortunate that the last Titan IV that never flew, it's on hanging fo- Hangar 4-
Rick PeralesHOST
At the museum
Jay NordlingerHOST
Uh, when you mentioned Truman, I, I, I thought of something that may interest you.
Jay NordlingerHOST
Uh, I think this comes from, uh, from Hank Meyer's biography of Vandenberg, wonderful book, that Vandenberg said after the 1948 election, which Truman won in a surprise, he said, "You have to hand it to the little man.
Jay NordlingerHOST
You have to hand it to the little man." And, you know, he had, was a World War I vet-
Steven B. SmithGUEST
Mm-hmm
Derek DeStefanGUEST
And the Guardians of the Higher Frontier is what they called it, or the Coldest Warriors.
Derek DeStefanGUEST
That NRO symbol, I had to look it up, but V stands for Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Derek DeStefanGUEST
And so that's some of the, they were obviously running secret missions.
Derek DeStefanGUEST
The whole point of NRO is reconnaissance, running high altitude planes, spy planes like the U-2 was the first big one that we found out about or that we know of that was declassified.
TowerHOST
Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
TowerHOST
Vandenberg Space Force Base on the California's central coast.
TowerHOST
Starbase, the SpaceX facility at Boca Chica in South Texas.
TowerHOST
Wallops Island in Virginia, and more commercial launch pads coming online over the next few years.
9 MINS LATER
TowerHOST
Terminal Radar Approach Control, or TRACON, facilities in Miami and Jacksonville have developed launch coordination procedures that work for the current pace, but controllers have acknowledged that the coordination workload is already significant.
TowerHOST
At five or 10 times the current cadence, the present system would not hold.
TowerHOST
California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Central Coast is the primary West Coast launch site, and its corridors reach into the Pacific and toward the Los Angeles Basin's complex airspace structure.
TowerHOST
As Pacific Corridor launch cadence increases, the interaction with offshore routes and transoceanic traffic becomes a planning problem the FAA's oceanic facilities will have to absorb.
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