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Space and Missile Test Center and Range Operations Control Center involved in a missile test launch operation in Lompoc.

The activities involved in a LGM-30 Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile operational test launch at Vandenberg AFB, Lompoc. Countdown crews at controls in launch center located in launch facility. Shows control officer, countdown director, and countdown crews working prior to launch. A monitor operator at controls. Space and Missile Test Center building. Interiors of the building shows members of technical staff and Launch Squad Commander. Supervisor and other officers at work in Range Operations Control Center. View of radars and radomes. Radomes on a ship underway at sea. Task force crews in Launch Control Center. A man sets up road barricades. Final communication checks are completed beginning the final countdown. Countdown control officer takes down messages in launch center located in launch facility.

Date: 1979, July 10
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053258
Test launch of LGM-30 Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc, California.

A LGM-30 Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile operational test launch at Vandenberg AFB, Lompoc. Countdown crew at controls in launch center located in launch facility. Shows control officer, countdown director, and countdown crew working prior to launch. A message received on a radio gives details about a boat in danger area around the launcher. View of shoreline. Issuing launch command by phone. Last minute checks are accomplished. Count is continued. Men work at consoles. An operator in the control room handles launch switch. Two LGM-30 Minuteman missiles are launched and their multiple reentry vehicles can be seen glowing as they enter the atmosphere, descending toward the test target area at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific. Views of crew working with Mark 12 MIRV (multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles) in underground silo. Maintenance crews coming up a launch tube. Airmen at consoles and data analysis prior to launch.

Date: 1979, July 10
Duration: 5 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053259
Launching of Atlas D intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Coverage of missile squadron training at Vandenberg AFB, California. Staff car driving to Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star airplane on flight line. Two colonels getting out and talking. T-33 (with SAC riband) taking off. Colonel in staff car. Car comes to halt. Driver opens the door of car. Atlas D with Mk II and Mod II nose cone erect in coffin shelter. Atlas assembly line in factory with workers at work. View of Atlas during engine ignition, lift-off and climb. View of launch control building. Airmen working on Atlas instrumentation pod. Airmen studying target maps, then airmen inserting cards in sorter to obtain target data.

Date: 1968, May 8
Duration: 7 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053319
Launch control crew of Atlas D intercontinental ballistic missile at stations in blockhouse in Vandenberg AFB, California.

Coverage of missile squadron training at Vandenberg AFB, California. Aerial view of missile base construction. Missile base during construction. Earthmover operating. Truck passing on highway. Maintenance building at base. Civilian and USAF base activation crew looking at drawings. Aerial view of Atlas complex. Three Atlas missiles in launch position at operational site. Maintenance building. Coffin shelter as seen through flame bucket door. Atlas D in coffin. Launch control crew at stations in blockhouse. Status panel in room. Atlas being erected in coffin shelter. Atlas lift-off. Radome and telemetry tracker. Views of control console during early stages of flight, shows radar meter, vernier cut off switch, guidance complete light, and airman at control console. Aerial view of building at Vandenberg AFB. Shrouded Atlas on trailer truck. Atlas missiles in maintenance building during checkout.

Date: 1968, May 8
Duration: 5 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053320
Minuteman II ICBM launch site under construction at Malmstorm AFB in Montana and Vandenberg AFB in California.

A report covering the expansion and modernization of U.S. ICBM force. Site selected for Minuteman II missile launch at Malmstorm Air Force Base in Montana. Car passing through hilly region near Malmstorm AFB. Construction of Minuteman II missile site showing army engineers and men at work. Construction of missile silos. Aerial view of Minuteman base under construction at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. Control centers and silos under construction. Building missile capsules at air base. Sign reads 'Site Activation Task Force Ballistics Systems Division Air Force Systems Command - Grand Forks AFB No. Dak.'. Exteriors of building. Officer at charts and desks in conference. Flooding at missile base showing heavy equipment operating. Construction of launching facilities at Vandenberg AFB. Test facilities to flight test integrated Minuteman II launchers and missiles. Aerial view of Minuteman II test site at Vandenberg. Officers working in launch control center.

Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053324
Updating of Titan II missile test facilities at McConnell, Little Rock, and Davis Monthan Air Force Bases.

Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile goes through extensive modernization program. Shows Titan II on trailer truck. U.S. map highlights McConnell, Little Rock, and Davis Monthan Air Force Bases where 54 missile facilities are to be updated. Process is broken down into four projects. Project Top Banana for booster modification. Project RV Update for reentry vehicle improvement. Project Guidance for system modification. Project Yard Fence for launch facility modernization. View of missile facility at McConnell AFB. Updating of missile for space boosters, and modification and updating of launch facilities. Men going into silo. Officer at chart. Engineers working at missile components and circuit boards.

Date: 1965
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053326