Air Force Space Command is celebrating its 30th Anniversary! Here is a significant milestone from the command’s history …
On 1 October 1990, in its continued efforts to provide an operational focus for the use of space, the Air Force transferred control of all operational space lift vehicles from Air Force Systems Command to Space Command.
Over the next four years, Space Command assumed launch responsibility for Atlas E, Atlas II, Delta II, Titan II and Titan IV missions assets and missions, as well as gaining Cape Canaveral AFS and the then Eastern Space and Missile Center, now the 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, Fla., and the then Western Space and Missile Center, now the 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
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