[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

[Launch Alert]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
			      Brian Webb
		  launch-alert-editor at earthlink.net
	                www.spacearchive.info
		       
                                2019 August 1 (Thursday) 19:51 PDT
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		   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE

         All launch dates and times are subject to change.

                           Launch
                         Time/Window
       Date               (PST/PDT)           Vehicle       Pad/Silo
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Early 2020            Unknown              Falcon 9         SLC-4E
Vehicle will launch Argentina's SAOCOM-1B earth observation satellite

The above schedule is a composite of unclassified information
approved for public release from government, industry, and other
sources. It represents the Editor's best effort to produce a schedule,
but may disagree with other sources. Details on military launches are
withheld until they are approved for public release. For official
information regarding Vandenberg AFB activities, go to
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil.

All launch dates and times are given in Pacific Time using a 24-hour
format similar to military time (midnight = 00:00, 1:00 p.m. = 13:00,
11:00 p.m. = 23:00, etc.). 

The dates and times in this schedule may not agree with those on other
online launch schedules, including the official Vandenberg AFB
schedule because different sources were used, the information was
interpreted differently, and the schedules were updated at different
times.

PDT: Pacific Daylight Time

PST: Pacific Standard Time

SLC: Space Launch Complex

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               LOOKING BACK: TWO DEGREES OF SEPARATION
                            by Anonymous

In early 1973 I was attending high school four miles south of Los
Angeles International Airport. A new kid showed up at my school named
Frank Lunney.

We became friends and he found out I was interested in the space
program. Frank casually mentioned "My uncle Glynn is some kind of big
shot at NASA" but he didn't know what his uncle did at the space
agency. I asked Frank if his uncle's name was Glynn Lunney. He said
yes.

Wow!!! Glynn Lunney was one of the Flight Directors who sat in Mission
Control in Houston and was in charge of shifts of flight controllers
on various U.S. manned space missions. One of his noteworthy shifts
put him on-console and in-charge when the Apollo 11 lunar module made
its descent to the lunar surface.

In 1975 I was at the space center in Houston covering the U.S.-Soviet
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). Glynn Lunney was ASTP project
manager. I had the opportunity to talk to him after a press briefing
and ask him if he had a nephew in California named Frank. He did. He
was surprised that I knew Frank.

Glynn Lunney's son Bryan Lunney also became a flight director in
mission control. As for Frank, he later became a stand-up comedian
and radio personality under the name "Captain Rowdy." Unfortunately,
he died much too young in 2012.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynn_Lunney

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