Test launch of an LGM-25C Titan II ICBM from an Missile silo | underground silo at Vandenberg AFB, during the mid 1970s

It was also used to fit-check the never-used shuttle launch pad at Vandenberg AFB, California.

* September 29 – The Canadian Alouette 1, the first satellite built outside the United States and the Soviet Union, is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.

* April 3 – The world's first space nuclear power reactor, SNAP-10A, is launched by the United States from Vandenberg AFB, California.

Since the bankruptcy, only seven additional satellites have been launched but an updated constellation of 66 satellites called Iridium NEXT is currently being developed and is planned for launch in 2015-2017 on SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Vehicles from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3 in California.

* Vandenberg AFB Vandenberg AFB, CA 93437-6312

The host unit at Vandenberg AFB is the 30th Space Wing.

Today, Vandenberg stands as the third largest Air Force base after Eglin AFB in Florida, and Edwards AFB in California.

Vandenberg AFB Main gate

On 4 October 1958, Cooke AFB was renamed Vandenberg AFB in honor of the late General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the Air Force's second Chief of Staff.

The transition from Army camp to missile base solidified on 15 December 1958 when Vandenberg AFB successfully launched its first missile, a PGM-17 Thor IRBM ( Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile ) The launch from Vandenberg inaugurated the intermediate-range ballistic missile portion of the Pacific Missile Range and was fired by a crew from the 1st Missile Division.

The first successful launch of a Thor IRBM by a Royal Air Force crew took place at Vandenberg AFB on 16 April 1959.

The next month, the first missile to be removed from an operational unit and sent to Vandenberg AFB for confidence firing arrived from a Thor IRBM squadron ( 98th RAF Strategic Missile Squadron ) in the United Kingdom.

On 16 October 1958, the first Atlas ICBM launcher ( 576A-1 ) constructed at Vandenberg AFB, California, was accepted from the contractor by the 1st Missile Division.

On 25 March 1966, the 200th SAC missile launched from Vandenberg AFB, California was a Titan II.

In July 1974, the initial training of Minuteman missile combat crews, formerly performed by Air Training Command ( ATC ) instructors at Vandenberg AFB, California, was incorporated into the 4315th Combat Crew Training Squadron's Operational Readiness Training ( ORT ) program at Vandenberg.

In the first two series Mike's position is constantly under threat from senior reporter Brooke Vandenberg, who has a better press profile, but by the last series he has been cemented as one of the network's most valuable stars and considerably more effort is made to pander to his whims.

* Brooke Vandenberg ( Jane Kennedy ) is a reporter on Frontline.

* Blustering Bellowpane Monster ( performed by Tom Vandenberg )-The Blustering Bellowpane Monster is the creature which blows Boober's lucky hat off his head in " You Can't Do That Without a Hat.

Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base, located approximately northwest of Lompoc, California.

The base is named in honor of former Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg.

Vandenberg Air Force Base is named in honor of the late General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, second Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and chief architect of today's modern Air Force.

The latest missile deployed at Vandenberg in 2005 is the Ground-based Interceptor ( GBI ) missile Suborbital booster for the US Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense system's EKV ballistic missile kill vehicle.

Vandenberg Village is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in the unincorporated area of Santa Barbara County, California, United States.

Vandenberg Village is the location of Cabrillo High School ( one of two general high schools located within Lompoc Unified School District boundaries ), Buena Vista Elementary School, and Maple High ( Continuation ) School.

Finally, a memorial to the AVG and 14th AF is located at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, depicting a P-40 in AVG markings with a bronze plaque describing the unit's history and Vandenberg's role as headquarters for the 14th AF.

In the case of high-inclination ( polar ) launches the latitude does not matter, but the Cape Canaveral area is not suitable because inhabited areas underlie these trajectories ; Vandenberg Air Force Base, Cape Canaveral's West coast counterpart, is used instead.

Senator Vandenberg is memorialized in a Michigan historical marker for the Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg / Vandenberg Center in Grand Rapids

Vandenberg Hall at Oakland University is named in his honor.

It is being launched on an Atlas V 401 from Vandenberg Air Force Base by the Launch Services Program.

Had the planned STS-62-A mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1986 for the United States Department of Defense gone ahead, Discovery would have flown it.

While the majority of the missile launches came from United States Department of Defense footage of ICBM missile tests ( mainly Minuteman IIIs from Vandenberg Air Force Base adjacent to Lompoc, California ), all of the stock footage of missile launches were acquired from declassified DoD film libraries.

Although he continued to vote with the conservative coalition against Roosevelt's domestic proposals, Vandenberg gradually abandoned his isolationism to become an architect of a bipartisan foreign policy, which he defined as a consensus developed by consultation between the President, the State Department, and congressional leaders from both parties, especially those in the Senate.

In this position he managed the Department of Defense space shuttle program, including the design and construction of the West Coast space shuttle launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California ; the acquisition of space shuttle upper stage boosters ; and the operational aspects of launching military payloads on the shuttle.

Ground-based Midcourse Defense ( GMD ) interceptor in launch silo at Vandenberg

; and Vandenberg AFB, Calif. and there are also cross-service schools such as Defense Language Institute, Calif and the Army Chemical School located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri ; also there is a new technical training institute at Joint Base San Antonio, TX which is known as Fort Sam Houston, TX for a couple of medical careers.

Used by operators at the 614th Air and Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., the 614 AOC's 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week support provides vigilance of global and theater operations and equips the Joint Functional Component Command for space operations with the tools to conduct command and control of space forces.

The Atlas would remain in use as a launch vehicle for satellites from Vandenberg as a space booster configured with an RM-81 Agena upper stage rocket and the Atlas-Agena would launch many different types of satellites into orbit until its phaseout in the late 1980s.

Elements within the Soviet space industry convinced Leonid Brezhnev that the Shuttle was a single-orbit weapon that would be launched from Vandenberg, maneuver to avoid existing anti-ballistic missile sites, bomb Moscow in a first strike, and then land.

* 381st Training Group Vandenberg AFB, CaliforniaProvides qualification training for intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBM ), space surveillance, missile warning, spacelift, and satellite command and control operators.

In 1997, 14 AF established the Space Operations Center at Vandenberg AFB in California for the 24-hour command and control of all space operations resources.

In 1997, 14 AF established the Space Operations Center at Vandenberg AFB in California for the 24-hour command and control of all space operations resources.

The Act also created a Civilian-Military Advisory Panel, based thereafter at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California that would advise and coordinate the military uses of space.