Not only no, but hell no!<br /><br />First of all, after the SLC-6/Shuttle SNAFU I doubt that the Air Force would want to touch another NASA joint project with a 10 ft pole. Billions of dollars down the drain.<br /><br />There is absolutely no reason to use the Ares I or V rockets from Vandenberg. The Ares I can lift a proposed 24,500 kg payload into LEO. The Delta IV Heavy can lift a 25,800 kg payload into the same orbit. So why would anyone want to spend billions of dollars to build a new launch pad for a rocket that can deliver less payload that the current LVs at twice the price?<br /><br />As for the Ares V, unless you can find a reason for launching a Skylab-sized space station into polar orbit, then there is no reason for it at Vandenberg. Besides, SLC-6 (the former Shuttle launch pad ad Vandenberg) is now being used by Boeing for the Delta IV, so that means that yet another multi-billion dollar launch pad will have to be built. So Ares at Vandenberg has about a snowball's chance in hell of ever seeing fruition. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>