Space Technology Laboratories / SSD / Naval Research Laboratory / Infrared Early Warning Systems / Global Protection Against Limited / Project Spike / Manned Orbiting Laboratory / General Dynamics / Douglas Aircraft Company / Astronautics Laboratory / Air Force Astronautics Laboratory / Nike / STP / GE / Air University Press / Antisatellite Systems / Boeing / Airlaunched ASAT / Ling-TEMCO-Vought / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United Kingdom / Iraq / United States / Soviet Union / /
Currency
USD / pence / /
Facility
Vandenberg AFB / R&D Facility / Edwards AFB / Ramo-Wooldridge hangar / Manned Orbiting Laboratory / Air Force Astronautics Laboratory / Astronautics Laboratory / Wright Patterson AFB / Naval Research Laboratory / Naval Ordnance Test Station / Angeles AFB / Los Angeles International Airport / /
IndustryTerm
launch site / operational satellite system / directed energy weapons / tactical satellite communications / systems / surveillance systems / satellite-inspection capability / technology demonstration / miniature imaging system / gas ionization / propulsion systems / experimental satellite / directed and kinetic energy weapons / ground equipment / operational military satellite systems / advisory contractor / scientific satellite / ingenious solutions / selected satellite / technology experiments / /
NaturalFeature
Cape Canaveral / Johnston Island / /
Organization
Air Force’s office of Aerospace Research / U.S. Naval Space Command / Air Force Secretariat / Air Force Systems Command / Defense Acquisition Board / SMC / Strategic Defense Initiative Organization / Army Ballistic Missile Agency / Army / Wright Air Development Center / Navy / Advanced Research Projects Agency / United States Army / Group of Eight / Eisenhower administration / Air Defense Command / Missile Defense Agency / Ballistic Missile Defense Organization / Air Force Space Command / Congress / U.S. Space Command / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Air Force Ballistic Missile Division / Department of Defense / office of the Secretary / Development Center / /
Person
Clayton K.S. Chun / James Abrahamson / Lyndon B. Johnson / David N. Spires / Schriever / Robert Herres / Thomas P. Taverney / Robert S. McNamara / Gerald Ford / Wright Air Left / /
Position
President / vice admiral and head / General / technical advisory contractor / admiral / Major General / Secretary of Defense / Director of Defense Research and Engineering / Administrator for Space Flight and later as Administrator / general officer / artist / commander / lieutenant general and Director / /
CHAPTER VII: OTHER PROGRAMS Pioneer Lunar Missions The first Air Force spacecraft to be launched and the first space missions to be actually carried out by the Air Force were the Pioneer lunar probes of[removed]They were a