#OTD 1968 Advanced Ballistic Re-Entry System test launch of an #Atlas F #ICBM by Air Force Systems Command takes place at Vandenberg AFB, CA. (Site ABRES A-3). No nickname was associated with this launch.
#OTD 1967 Follow-on Operational Test launch of a #Minuteman I “B” #ICBM by Strategic Air Command was conducted at Vandenberg AFB, CA (LF-03). The launch is nicknamed “Buccaneer Sword”.
#OTD 1963 Research and Development launch of a #Titan I #ICBM by Air Force Systems Command takes place at Vandenberg AFB, CA. (Site 395 A-1). The launch is nicknamed “Ten Men”.
#OTD 1975 SAC completed its Force Modernization Program. This nine-year effort to replace all #Minuteman I missiles with either Minuteman IIs or IIIs ended when the last flight of the 90th Strategic Missile Wing, F. E. Warren AFB, WY, was outfitted with the Minuteman III.
#OTD 1960 Demonstration flight of an #Atlas 6D #ICBM by SAC takes place at Vandenberg AFB, CA (Site 576 A-3, BMRS A-3). The nickname of the launch is “Dual Exhaust”.
#OTD 1963 Operational Test launch of #Atlas 39D #ICBM by Strategic Air Command was conducted at Vandenberg AFB, CA (Site 576 B-2). The launch is nicknamed “Big Sue”.
#OTD 1967 Follow-on Operational Test launch of a #Minuteman I “B” #ICBM by Strategic Air Command was conducted at Vandenberg AFB, CA (LF-09). The launch is nicknamed “Truck Travel”.
#OTD 1962 Demonstration and Shakedown Operations launch of #Atlas 132D #ICBM by Strategic Air Command (SAC) takes place at #Vandenberg AFB, CA. (Site 576 B-3). The launch is nicknamed “Blue Moss”.
#OTD 1961 The last attempted launch of a Series D #Atlas#ICBM at Cape Canaveral, FL, was successful. Of the 49 test launches of the Series D Atlas ICBM, 35 were rated complete successes, eight were rated partial successes, and six were rated failures.