Sep 25 1989
From The Space Library
A NASA Atlas-Centaur vehicle carrying a Navy communications satellite was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral At Force Station, Florida. This was the last orbital launch of a launch vehicle by NASA, since responsibility for all future orbital launches was transferred to the private sector and the branches of the Defense Department. Since inception in 1958, NASA had launched over 400 untended orbital rockets. The Atlas-Centaur carried a Navy Fleet Satellite Communications F-8 (FLTSATCOM F-8) relay station into a preliminary orbit on its way toward geosynchronous orbit. (NASA Release 89-145, Sep 18/89; NASA Release, Sep 25/89; NASA: Atlas/Centaur-68 FLTSATCOM F-8 Launch Press Kit, Sep/89; AP, Sep 25/89; UPI, Sep 25/89; USA Today, Sep 25/89; NY Times, Sep 26/89; WSJ, Sep 26/89; LA Times, Sep 26/89; P Inq, Sep 26/89; B Sun, Sep 26/89; W Times, Sep 26/89)
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