Convair ICBM / Manned Orbiting Laboratory / Aerospace Corporation / Rand Corporation / Air Force / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United States / Soviet Union / Vietnam / /
Event
M&A / Natural Disaster / Reorganization / /
Facility
Vandenberg Air Force Base / Air Force headquarters / Maxwell Air Force Base / Headquarters Fourteenth Air Force / Manned Orbiting Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
early warning infrared satellite / satellite feasibility / satellite control / satellite command / reconnaissance satellite project / technological solutions / satellite requirements / needed technical expertise / reconnaissance satellite program / satellite efforts / space applications / electro-optical reconnaissance satellite / requirements and systems / thermonuclear devices / tri-service management / space technologies / satellite development / tactical applications / ground-based space surveillance network / reconnaissance satellite / satellite systems / potential operational impact ofspace systems / satellite navigation system / space systems / /
NaturalFeature
Persian Gulf / West Coast / /
Organization
Reagan administration / Space Command / Air Force Systems Command / National Space Council / Space Warfare Center / House Appropriations Committee / Army / Senate / Navy / Central Intelligence Agency / Lockheed's Missile Systems Division / New Horizons / National Reconnaissance Office / Kennedy administration / ofDefense Department / Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency / U.S. Strategic Command / national military / Staff General Merrill A. McPeak and Air Force / Eisenhower administration / McPeak's mission / Bush administration / NASADefense Department / Air Force Space Command / Military Space Mission / General Accounting Office / General McPeak's mission / Congress / Scientific Advisory Board / second Eisenhower administration / Western Development Division / U.S. Space Command / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Moorman Committee / Department of Defense / office of the Secretary / /
Person
Edward C. Aldridge / Jr. / Merrill A. McPeak / Robert McNamara / Eisenhower / John Deutch / Nixon / Daniel J. Fink / Sheila E. Widnall / Merrill McPeak / Sheila Widnall / Thomas S. Moorman / Jr. / Bernard A. Schriever / Laurel Wilkening / /
Position
President / executive agent / General / Secretary / Chief / first commander / Brigadier General / chief of staff / single manager / direction ofthe hard-charging Brigadier / Under Secretary / Lieutenant General / Deputy Defense Secretary / vice commander / Commanding General / Secretary of Defense / Director of Defense Research and Engineering / Chief of Staff General Merrill McPeak / Chairman / component commander / Staff General / Brigadier / Air Force Secretary / /
CHAPTER 8 An Air Force Vision for the Military Space Mission : A Roadmap to the 21 st Century