Month: August 2019

This photograph accompanied a news article today on the formation of the U.S. Space Command.  A familiar sight I readily recognized:  the night launch of a missile or spacecraft launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base (near Lompoc, California).  In an assignment during my early GAO investigative career, I spent a few months in 1965-1966 at Vandenberg, where such spectacles were frequent.  Most of the test shots were aimed “down range” toward the Kwajalein atoll in the Pacific.  Learn more about Vandenberg here.

Some reads of interest:

SLATE: “Why I Printed My Facebook”

NEW YORK TIMES: “I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds
of Trackers Followed Me.”