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Multi-Service Far East Force To Support Apollo Moon ShotCAPE KENNEDY AFS, Fla. 70 millimeter high resolution mand with headquarters at Scott(Special) ~ Air Force Eastern motion picture system. AFB, Hi.Test Range personnel will join The ALOTS aircraft is main- Units working in lesser roleswith other Air Force, Army, tained and operated by AFETR are from the Air Force Conunu-Navy and Marine units in sup- at Patrick AFB. ni cations Service (AFC’S);port of the Apotio 11 launch and Other EC135N aircraft, the Ground Electronics Engineeringlunar landing mission. Apollo Range Instrumentation Installation Agenev (GEE1A)The launch of the huge Saturn Aircraft (ARIA), will be deploy- from the Air Force LogisticsV from Pad 39A of NASA’s John ed from Patrick, and they will Command; the Air Weather Ser-F. Kennedy Space Center is bo providing S-band tracking, vice; and units from the U.S.scheduled to boost the Apollo 1.1 voice relay and both S-band and Air Forces in Europe (USAFE).Crew on their way to the moon UHF telemetry. Army units providing supportJuly 16, at 9:32 a.m, (EDT), Other Air Force units support- for Apollo 11 are the WhiteThe multi-service force will ing the Apollo 11 mission will in- Sands Missile Range and T)e-provide 6,81)5 people, 54 aircraft elude the Air Force Western fense Communications Agency,and 9 ships during the planned Test Range at Vandcnberg AFB, Navy units taking pari in theeight-day mission. The Depart- Calif.; North American Air Do overall DOD effort include Navymerit of Defense support force is fense Command (NORAD) head- Task Force 130, or the Pacificunder the operational control of quartered at Ent AFB, Colo.; Manned Spacecraft RecoveryMaj. Gen, David M. Jones, Air and the Aerospace Rescue and Force, and Navy Task ForceForce Eastern Test Range com- Recovery Service (ARRS), a 140, or the Atlantic Recoverymander and DOD Manager for unit of the Military Airlift Com- Force.Manned Space Flight Support Operations (DDMS).During the flight of America’s historic first lunar landing mis- \sion, AFETR personnel will be p r o v i d i n g radar, telemetry, \communications and other var- |ied support along the 10,000-mile Air Force Eastern Test Range. fAFETR extends from Patrick AFB and Cape Kennedy AFS on the eastern coast of Florida over fthe south Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. ' fTracking stations along the range will include Patrick AFB providing C-barnl radar cov- ferage for launch and orbit; Cape Kennedy AFS providing C-band radar, range safety, olpics, me- fteorology, telemetry (receiving |and recording), and command destruct control; Merritt Island ffurnishing C-band radar and \telemetry; Grand Bahama Is- |land with telemetry, C-band ra- |dar, and command destruct; fGrand Turk and Antigua islands with C-band radar and UIIF fcommand destruct; Ascension |Island and Pretoria, Republic of fSouth Africa, each providing |C-band radar. ,§Also, an Air Force C135 air- Icraft equipped with Airborne 1Lightweight Optical Tracking |System (ALOTS) will film the fApollo II launch from approxi- Imately 40,000 feet. ALOTS is a |
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Sat, Jul 12, 1969
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