A Section 110 National Register Eligibility Evaluation of the Space Shuttle Oribiter Program District Vandenberg Air Force Base Santa Barbara County, California (2020-BEI)
Creators: name: Smallwood, Josh
name: Loetzerich, Roscoe
Publisher: name: (:unav)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Building #330
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/87198/building-330
subject: Building 398
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/93360/building-398
subject: Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/138685/space-launch-complex-6-slc-6
subject: Building 2500
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/95487/building-2500
subject: Building 3000
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/138686/building-3000
subject: Space Shuttle Orbiter Program District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/138684/space-shuttle-orbiter-program-district
subject: Space Shuttle Program
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/164545/space-shuttle-program
subject: District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/115446/district
subject: Space Shuttle
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/48828/space-shuttle
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey

description: This document is a National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section 110 inventory and evaluation of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Program District on Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in Santa Barbara County, California. The purpose of this study is to provide information for compliance with Section 110 of the NHPA of 1966, as amended, and to support the review of anticipated future activities which will be conducted under Section 106 of the NHPA. The Space Shuttle Orbiter Program District encompasses numerous buildings and structures spread across North Base and South Base and interconnected by various segments of tow-roads which were built and used to transport the Shuttle and solid rocket motors to and from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-6. The buildings and structures include SLC-6, Building 2500, Building 2520, Building 3000, Building 330, Building 398, the Shuttle airstrip, the Shuttle tow route, the South Base Harbor, and various segments of tow-roads and railroad spurs which were constructed to interconnect these facilities. The purpose of this study was to capture the history of these facilities and their association with the West Coast Space Shuttle Orbiter Program; to document the buildings and structures at these facilities as the Space Shuttle Orbiter Program District; to document the resources on California Department of Parks &amp; Recreation 523 (DPR 523) recording forms (placed on file with the California Office of Historic Preservation [OHP]); and to more broadly evaluate the built environment for eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The literature review, field survey, and evaluation were completed between October and December 2018 and in October 2020 by architectural historian Josh Smallwood, M.A., of the Center for the Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML). The study concluded that Space Shuttle Orbiter Program District contains no NRHP-eligible resources, as the Shuttle program was terminated before it ever launched. In addition, none of the individual elements has achieved significance for any other important historical associations or for important design, construction, or engineering merits.