David
Wed December 11, 2002 1:59pm
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"Lt. Col. Lyle Bernard, C
"Lt. Col. Lyle Bernard, CO, 30th Infantry Regiment, a prominent figure in the second daring amphibious landing behind enemy lines on Sicily's north coast, discusses military strategy with Lt. Gen. George S. Patton. Near Brolo." 1943.
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David
Wed December 11, 2002 2:07pm
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Pvt. Paul Oglesby, 30th I
Pvt. Paul Oglesby, 30th Infantry, standing in reverence before an altar in a damaged Catholic Church. Note: pews at left appear undamaged, while bomb-shattered roof is strewn about the sanctuary. Acerno, Italy." Benson, September 23, 1943.
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David
Tue December 17, 2002 2:05pm
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Spc. Harold Gruda, a scou
Spc. Harold Gruda, a scout in Scout Platoon, Task Force 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, responds to a radio call while manning a M-240B machine gun at the Traffic Control Point at Muci Babe during Operation Iron Fist III on Feb. 27, 2002 (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Bill Putnam/131st MPAD).
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David
Wed January 8, 2003 8:24am
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T-54B of 202nd Armored Br
T-54B of 202nd Armored Brigade crashes through the gates of the RVN Presidential Palace, 30th April, 1975
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David
Sat January 18, 2003 9:13am
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A Lockheed Martin-built T
A Lockheed Martin-built Titan IV B rocket successfully launched a classified payload for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on 17 August 2000. The NRO is the U.S. government agency responsible for reconnaissance satellites. The launch was from Space Launch Complex Four East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. This was the second Titan IV launched successfully this year and the 30th Titan IV launch overall. Ten Titan IVs have been launched from Vandenberg, 20 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. The Titan IV B is capable of boosting payloads weighing 38,800 pounds into low-Earth polar orbit, 47,800 pounds into low-Earth equatorial orbit, or more than 12,700 pounds into geosynchronous orbit.
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David
Sat January 18, 2003 9:13am
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Team Vandenberg launched
Team Vandenberg launched a Titan IV-B rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East on August 17, 2000. The rocket carried a National Reconnaissance Office satellite into orbit. "The 30th Space Wing, Space and Missile Center, NRO and Lockheed Martin Aerospace have worked together to build upon our legacy of success," said Col. Steve Lanning, 30th Space Wing commander and spacelift commander for the mission. "This marks the 1,800th launch from Vandenberg. We have built a solid foundation for government and commercial space launches from here for years to come." Payload-booster separation successfully occurred at 4:54.15 p.m.
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David
Sat January 18, 2003 9:41am
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Airman Alicia Guenther, A
Airman Alicia Guenther, Airmen First Class Raphael Jacobs and Nicholas Caines, 30th Airlift Squadron maintenance people, Yokota Air Base, Japan, give a C-9 Nightingale a good scrub Nov. 22, 1999. A paint safe detergent is used to wash the aircraft once every quarter, the wash also prevents corrosion. The C-9 is a twin-engine, T-tailed, medium-range, swept-wing jet aircraft used primarily for Air Mobility Command's aeromedical evacuation mission. The Nightingale is a modified version of the McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Corporation's DC-9. It is the only aircraft in the inventory specifically designed for the movement of litter and ambulatory patients. The C-9A's airlift capability to carry 40 litter patients, 40 ambulatory and four litter patients, or various combinations thereof, provides the flexibility for Air Mobility Command's worldwide aeromedical evacuation role.
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David
Tue February 11, 2003 12:53pm
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Atlas II
Function: Launch vehicle.
Description: Atlas II is a member of the Atlas family of launch vehicles which evolved from the successful Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program. It is designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit.
Atlas IIA is a two-and-a-half stage vehicle, primarily used to support the Defense Satellite Communications System III program. The Atlas IIA is capable of lifting approximately 14,500 pounds (6,577 kilograms) into low earth orbit and 6,100 pounds (2,767 kilograms) to a geosynchronous orbit (22,000 miles-plus).
The Atlas II provides higher performance than the earlier Atlas I by using engines with greater thrust and longer fuel tanks for both stages. All three engines provide 494,500 pounds of total thrust capability. This series uses an improved Centaur upper stage - the world's first high-energy propellant stage - to increase its payload capability. Centaur propulsion is provided by a Pratt and Whitney liquid rocket engine set consisting of two engines that provide 41,000 pounds of thrust.
Atlas II also has lower-cost electronics, an improved flight computer and longer propellant tanks than its predecessor, Atlas I.
Atlas IIs are launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, by the 45th Space Wing and, in the future, will be launched by the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA.
History: The Atlas IIA launch vehicle program is managed by the Launch Programs System Program Office at Air Force Materiel Command's Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, CA.
In May 1988, the Air Force chose General Dynamics (now Lockheed-Martin) to develop the Atlas II vehicle. The Atlas was originally fielded as an ICBM in the early 1960s. The Air Force replaced the Atlas ICBMs with Minuteman missiles and converted them into space launch vehicles in the late 1960s. NASA used the Atlas as a space launch vehicle as early as 1958. Atlas served as the launch vehicle for Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite that broadcast President Eisenhower's pre-recorded Christmas message around the world.
An Atlas booster carried U.S. astronaut John Glenn into orbit under Project Mercury, the first U.S. manned space program. Atlas space launch vehicles were used in all three unmanned lunar exploration programs. Atlas Centaur vehicles also launched Mariner and Pioneer planetary probes.
General Characteristics, Atlas II
Primary Contractor:
Lockheed Martin Astronautics: airframe, assembly, test and systems integration
Principal Subcontractors:
Rocketdyne (Atlas engine); Pratt & Whitney (Centaur engine ) and Honeywell and Marconi (avionics)
Power Plant:
Three MA-5A Rocketdyne engines, two Pratt & Whitney RL10A-4 Centaur engines
Thrust:
494,500 pounds (Rocketdyne engines); 41,000 pounds (Centaur engines)
Length:
Up to 156 feet (47.54 meters); 16-foot-high engine cluster (4.87 meters)
Gross Liftoff Weight:
414,000 pounds (204,343 kilograms)
Core Diameter:
10 feet (3.04 meters)
First Launch:
Feb. 10, 1992
Launch Site:
Cape Canaveral Air Station, FL
Inventory:
Unavailable
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