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... and Conrad twice spotted objects on the ground; they observed a Minuteman ICBM launch from Vandenberg AFB , and tracked and photographed it; they sighted a huge checkerboard design laid out on the ... , the astronauts saw, tracked, and photographed another Minuteman ICBM fired from Vandenberg AFB and identified a rocket sled test on Holloman AFB. At request of U.S. Weather Bureau, they attempted to photograph ...

... ALOUETTE was placed in polar orbit by Thor-Agena B vehicle launched by NASA from Vandenberg AFB . Initial orbital data: apogee, 619.2 mi.; perigee, 597 mi.; inclination, 80.84° to the ... satellite, to be orbited in 1963. USAF Minuteman ICBM fired in combat-ready test from Vandenberg AFB , Calif., range safety officer destroying missile shortly after launch. Spokesman for American Telephone and Telegraph ...

Two Thor shots, one from Cape Canaveral and one from Vandenberg AFB , were successful. Intermediate range ballistic missile portion of PMR was inaugurated with successful tiring of USAF Thor from Vandenberg AFB . MATS C-133 Cargomaster lifted 117,900 pounds of cargo to 10,000 feet, a weight-lifting record, at Dover AFB, Del.

... stage of the Delta used in the successful launch of NASA's Landsat 3 from Vandenberg AFB Mar. 5. The pogo accumulator that suppressed pogo-stick-like vibration in the fuel system ... ; ARC Release 78-16) The Air Force Systems Command noted that Atlas launches planned at Vandenberg AFB as well as at Cape Canaveral in 1978 would use one of the oldest booster ... Atlas vehicles. (AFSC Newsreview, Apr 78, 3) The Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB , Calif., was target site for a Navy Tomahawk cruise missile successfully launched from a submarine ...

... from Vandenberg AFB , originally scheduled for October 15, 1985, until no earlier than January 29, 1986. NASA and Air Force officials had conducted in December 1984 an extensive review of Vandenberg Space Shuttle ... development of the DOD payload for the initial Vandenberg launch. NASA and the Air Force agreed that the orbiter Discovery would be delivered to Vandenberg in early September 1985 instead of May ...

... cooperating in the study, which in 1964 was expected to involve the following sites: Vandenberg AFB , Warren AFB, Minot AFB, Whiteman AFB, and NASA's Mississippi Test Facility . The first on-site review Was made ... )'' Lt. Col. Robert S. Buchanan (USAF)of Aerospace Research Pilots School, Edwards AFB , told space medicine conference at Brooks AFB that the greatest potential dangers to large scientific space station with crew ...

... "an improved Thor booster combination of liquid and solid propellants," launched with unnamed satellite from Vandenberg AFB , was deliberately destroyed when it veered off course. Improved Thor had increased thrust from 170 ... ; Wash. Eve. Star, 3/1/63)'' USAF announced routine training launch of Atlas missile from Vandenberg AFB . ''(UPI, Wash,. Post, 3/1/63, A6)'' Senator Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz.) introduced jointly sponsored ...

... two months. ''(Carey, AP, Wash. Post, 8/31/63)'' USAF launched Titan I ICBM from Vandenberg AFB in flight some 5,000 mi. down Pacific Missile Range . ''(UPI, Wash. Post, 8/31 ... Kwajalein Island in the Pacific, scored its ninth "intercept" of Atlas ICBM target fired from Vandenberg AFB , Calif. ''(M&R,9/9/63,13)'' DOD announced the direct communication link between Washington ...

... Release 63-213)'' USAF announced launching unidentified satellite with Thor-Agena D launch vehicle from Vandenberg AFB . ''(AP, NYT, 9/25/63, 14)'' )'' President John F. Kennedy wrote a letter to Rep ... /63, 14)'' USAF announced launching Titan II ICBM from underground Silo in test flight from Vandenberg AFB . ''(AP, NYT, 9/25/63,14)'' France's Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales announced France ...

USAF launched Atlas-Agena D combination from Vandenberg AFB with undisclosed payload. ''(M&R, 3/2/64, 12)'' NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science ... day, USAF also fired Minuteman ICBM from Cape Kennedy and two Minuteman ICBM's from Vandenberg AFB , Calif., within 45 min. of each other. ''(UPI, NYT, 2/27/64, 17; M&R ...

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