Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance: Facts, Recollections and Reflections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance: Facts, Recollections and Reflections write by Peter Swan. This book was released on 2015-05-25. Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance: Facts, Recollections and Reflections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This history of SAFSP is dedicated to all those men and women who fought the Cold War, in silence - from above. No organization is better at gathering overhead intelligence than the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Today's NRO grew out of 3 organizations: AF, CIA, and Navy. The AF office for satellite reconnaissance was called the Secretary of Air Force's Office of Special Projects [SAFSP]. This monograph describes the birth of Air Force satellite reconnaissance. When SAFSP was created in response to Presidential recognition of a national imperative, 4 tenets captured the sense of urgency: direct access to national leadership, covert management/operations, highest national priority, and rapid procurement. In addition, 3 management principles led to SAFSP's success over 30+ years of providing reconnaissance intelligence: strong dedication to mission, empowerment at all levels, and reporting by exception.
Onizuka Air Force Base
Onizuka Air Force Base - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Onizuka Air Force Base write by Joseph T. Page II. This book was released on 2019. Onizuka Air Force Base available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For nearly five decades, some of the United States military's most secretive operations were conducted out of a collection of nondescript buildings at the intersection of State Route 237 and Mathilda Avenue in Sunnyvale, California. The installation was known by a variety of names in its early years: Satellite Test Center, Air Force Satellite Control Facility, the "Blue Cube," and Sunnyvale Air Force Station. In July 1986, the facility was renamed Onizuka Air Force Base after Col. Ellison S. Onizuka, the first Asian American astronaut, who was killed during the space shuttle Challenger accident. The location was selected due to its proximity to Lockheed Missiles and Space Company's Sunnyvale facilities and supported early satellite reconnaissance programs such as Corona, Gambit, and Hexagon. As the nation's nucleus for satellite command and control, workers at Onizuka Air Force Base directed efforts for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), US military, and NASA's space shuttle program until the closure of the base in 2010.
A History of Satellite Reconnaissance
A History of Satellite Reconnaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Satellite Reconnaissance write by James D. Outzen. This book was released on 2012. A History of Satellite Reconnaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
West Point Graduates and the United States Air Force
West Point Graduates and the United States Air Force - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook West Point Graduates and the United States Air Force write by Charles F.G. Kuyk, Jr.. This book was released on 2020-06-15. West Point Graduates and the United States Air Force available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. West Point graduates played a central role in developing U.S. military air and space power from the earliest days of mechanized flight through the establishment of the U.S. Air Force in 1947, and continuing through the Persian Gulf War. These graduates served at a time when the world's greatest wave of technological advancement occurred: in aviation, nuclear weapons, rocketry, ICBMs, computers, satellite systems in inner space and man in outer space. This history traces the advancement of weapons and space technology that became the hallmark of the U.S. Air Force, and the pivotal role that West Point graduates played in integrating them into a wide variety of Air Force systems and programs. Many became aircraft commanders, test pilots, astronauts and, later in their careers, general officers who helped shape and implement technologies still in use today.
The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years
The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years write by Bruce Berkowitz. This book was released on 2011. The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
