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... scale model of the Vandenberg AFB , Calif., launch pad and a Shuttle model having working main engines and solid-fuel rocket boosters to the same scale. The Vandenberg launch pad differed from that ... and monomethylhydrazine-and the hydrochloric-acid fallout expected from Shuttle motor exhaust during launches at Vandenberg AFB ; effects of laser exposure on eyes and skin; effects of multiple stress, including that caused ...

... provide facilities for shuttle users at Kennedy Space Center KSC by modification of existing facilities. Vandenberg AFB site would be phased in toward end of decade for shuttle flights requiring high-inclination ... . Low , NASA Deputy Administrator, explained at Kennedy Space Center KSC briefing why site construction at Vandenberg AFB would cost more than at Kennedy Space Center KSC : "At Kennedy we can make full ...

... a high-speed landing. ''(NYT, 11/10/63, 88)'' USAF launched an unidentified satellite from Vandenberg AFB , Calif., on board a Thor-Agena booster. ''(M&R, 11/18/63, 12)'' An Eastern ... , 57)'' USAF launched a Titan II ICBM from an underground silo at Vandenberg AFB , Calif. Test, sixth Titan II launch from Vandenberg, was to check operation of the total weapon system. ''(AP, Wash ...

... , and then to consider Mars." Unidentified payload launched by USAF with Thor-Agena vehicle from Vandenberg AFB . Two tandem 600-ft.-tall research balloons launched from Palestine, Texas, with dummy payload of ... antimissile missile successfully intercepted Atlas ICBM over the Pacific Ocean. Target Atlas was launched from Vandenberg AFB , Calif., and two Nike-Zeus missiles were fired from Kwajalein Island, the first Nike-Zeus ...

... Range at Patrick AFB, Fla., had served as lead range in satellite tracking, furnishing data from eastern sensors to GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER GSFC ; the Western Test Range at Vandenberg AFB had tracked ... radar on south Vandenberg AFB , the FPQ-14 radar at Kaena Point, Hawaii, and the FPQ-6 radar at Pillar Point, Calif. In addition, SAMTEC Operations Control personnel at Vandenberg had supported the ...

... a decoding device triggered by a voltage regulator failure, AEC reported. Launched April 3 from Vandenberg AFB , with an Atlas-Agena booster, Snap 10-A achieved an 806-mi, circular orbit and ... for more than 4,000 yrs. ''(AEC Release 11-247)'' USAF fired Minuteman ICBM from Vandenberg AFB , to target area in the Eniwetok Lagoon, about 4,500 mi, across the Pacific. ''(AP ...

... and shut down the powerful motor." ''(NYT, 12/13/65, 38)'' Missions currently performed at Vandenberg AFB , reportedly now busier than Cape Kennedy , were listed by U.S. News and World Report ... ; establishment of regular shuttle service in small rockets to and from large orbiting military spacecraft, Vandenberg was described as "a nest of pads and silos, some underground and some above, from ...

... -55) Three quarters of a million gallons of water flooded Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg AFB during a March test to determine whether the system, intended to suppress sound waves from ... for nearly 30 seconds before tapering off after the Space Shuttle left the pad. Although Vandenberg officials had tested the spray system six times previously, the March test was the first ... expected to make about four Space Shuttle launches a year by the late 1980s from Vandenberg AFB . The facility could handle as many as ten launches a year. (AFCS Newsreview, Apr 12 ...

... /30/63, 1)'' USAF launched Thor-Agena D booster rocket with two unidentified satellites from Vandenberg AFB , Calif. ''(Wash. Eve. Star, 8/30/63; M&R, 9/9/63, 13; Pres. Rpt ... Services, met in executive session. ''(NASA Leg. Act. Rpt.. II/136)'' Minuteman ICBM launched from Vandenberg AFB silo on 5,000-mi. flight down Pacific Missile Range . Launching was conducted by SAC ...

... toward a polar orbit from Vandenberg AFB . Purpose of the shot was not indicated. ''(, Wash. Post, 12/22/64)'' USAF launched Blue Scout , Jr., probe from Vandenberg AFB on a non-orbital space mission ... -bomber, formerly called the TFX, made a successful but somewhat abbreviated maiden flight from Carswell AFB, Tex. (the site of the General Dynamics Corp. plant that built the plane). Piloted by ...

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