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... for their independent programs, with all efforts coordinated by the State Department. USAF fired a Minuteman ICBM from a silo at Atlantic Missile Range AMR and sent it 3,000 miles downrange. In an associated test, a single-stage Nike was fired to trail the Minuteman up to 12 miles to chart wind patterns. In address at Ohio State University, General ...

... by proposed operational date of 1965, and was thought no longer needed in view of Minuteman and Polaris successes. U.S.-U.K. agreement of 1960 had provided for joint participation in Skybolt project. First USAF Minuteman squadron was declared operational, with 20 of the ICBM’s placed in underground silos at ...

... of 1954; other five were made under National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. USAF Minuteman ICBM launched from Cape Canaveral fell short of its intended range, but "many of the ... to be maintainable for decades to come, was chiefly due to new operational status of Minuteman ICBM. University of Alabama Research Institute dedicated at Huntsville, Ala. Claim of two Soviet scientists ...

... . Glenn T. Seaborg , AEC Chairman, as President-elect. '' (AAAS Release)'' Last test model of USAF Minuteman III missile was launched from underground silo at Eastern Test Range ETR toward South Atlantic target, ending 28-mo development program. Missile was 17th Minuteman III launched from Eastern Test Range ETR since Aug. 16, 1968; 15 had been launched ...

... on departure of M/G Clifford J. Kronauer; M/G Kenneth W. Schultz, Deputy for Minuteman, SAMSO, Norton AFB, Calif., would succeed M/G Gossick as Deputy Chief of Staff, Systems; B/G Abner B. Martin would succeed M/c Schultz as Deputy for Minuteman ; B/G Herbert A. Lyon, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Systems, AFSC, would succeed B ...

... had failed to demonstrate sufficient accuracy to seek out and destroy three separate U.S. Minuteman missiles in their steel and concrete silos, Dr. John S. Foster, Director of Defense Research ... that U.S.S.R.'s projected ability to destroy large part of U.S. Minuteman force by mid-1970s might not materialize until 1980s. ''(Beecher, NYT, 3/22/72, 1 ...

... Telegraph, 1/5/73)'' The Dept. of Defense had recommended expansion of the U.S. Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile force to include the highly accurate triple warhead multiple independently targetable reentry ... missiles, the Washington Post reported. Don had originally planned to put the MIRV on 550 Minuteman missiles and would recommend expansion of the program in the 1974 military budget request. ''(Getler ...

... , 3/2/73, 875-877)'' The small, $240 000 guidance-control computers used in the Minuteman I nuclear missile force had been made available to public organizations by the Air Force ... ­ming for peaceful uses. The computers had become available because of the deployment of the Minuteman III multiple-warhead missiles. ''(Wade, Science, 3/2/73, 880)'' February 1973 February March 1973 ...

... , Secretary of Defense, had directed the Air Force to plan safe demonstration launches of four Minuteman II missiles without warheads from operational silos in Montana during the winter of 1974-75 ... launches were to provide important test data and demonstrate the effectiveness and reliability of the Minuteman strategic deterrent force. ''(non Release 615-73)'' November 1973 November December 1973 December Dec 1 ...

... retrieved the 15,000-Ib. satellite, fastened Discovery 's mechanical arm onto it, disarmed its Minuteman rocket motor, and exposed its electronic connections. Later Fisher said he could see no evidence ... job. They would put a “space blanket” over the engine bell that served as the Minuteman motor's rocket nozzle to trap more of the sun's heat to warm it ...

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