News on Vandenberg Air Force Base

NASA Launches New Mapping Spacecraft

2010-11-03T09:03:32Z

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Mystery Spacecraft

2010-12-03T17:01:28Z

This image provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base shows the X-37B unmanned spaceplane shortly after landing Friday Dec. 3, 2010 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The X-37B slipped out of orbit and landed after a successful maiden flight that lasted more than seven months, the Air Force said.(AP Photo/Vandenberg Air Force Base)

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Shark Attack

2010-10-22T20:33:05Z

Longtime Lompoc resident Richard Grossini looks out over Surf Beach near scene of fatal shark attack, sign in background warns no lifeguard is on duty, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 in Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. A body boarder bled to death Friday at a beach northwest of NASA work continues on the spacecraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base's Astrotech processing facility in California. The sky-mapping WISE, or Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, is scheduled to launch no earlier than before dawn Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central ...

Delta II Rocket Launch Successful

2010-04-08T01:08:46Z

May 05, 2009 - Vandenberg AFB, Nevada, USA - A Delta 2 rocket lifts off with a quasi-classified satellite that will serve as an engineering trailblazer for ballistic missile tracking technologies flew into space Tuesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base

Copyright 2009 Vandenberg Air Force Base shows a Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex-2 lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Tuesday May 5, 2009. The rocket carrying an experimental satellite is equipped with sensors designed to detect, track and provide targeting information on missiles. (AP Photo/