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Word: dugway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby Point Mugu Naval-Air Missile Test Center. Already experienced at its work, the twelve-year-old Navy center has been scoring its own Sparrow and Bullpup guided missiles over a short ocean range, safely sent ship-based Regulus missiles over the mountains 500 miles inland to impact at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. Now enlarging to handle bigger missiles-perhaps to test submarine-based Polaris as well as work on National Aeronautics and Space Administration experiments-the Navy has recently started pad construction on 20,000 acres at Point Arguello right next to Vandenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Missiles West | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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