Sep 15 1961
From The Space Library
White House announced that AEC—DOD had conducted first U.S. nuclear weapons test since October 1958, an underground weapons development test at the Nevada testing site, one of low yield and which produced no fallout.
Army Nike-Zeus fired from White Sands Proving Ground met all test objectives, including controlled high-velocity in the atmosphere and evaluation of solid-fuel rocket motors and guidance system.
Marshall Space Flight Center's Procurement and Contracts Office reported that a contract was let to the Noble Co. for disassembling the Redstone gantry at Atlantic Missile Range and reassembling and erecting it at Pacific Missile Range. This gantry would be erected on pad 75-1-1 at Vandenberg Air Force Base for use with Thor-Agena B launches after January 1962.
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