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The Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), commanded by Maj. Gen. John Medaris, was formed on 1 February 1956, taking over from Redstone Arsenal the facilities and personnel of OGMC. Von Braun was the Director of ABMA's Development Operations Division. Redstone Arsenal then became an Army post, supporting the ABMA and, in the future, other agencies.
DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center is currently headquartered at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center has over 1.9 million square feet of laboratory space that is devoted to improving sensors and electronics, propulsion system, aerodynamic structures, modeling and simulation, life cycle software development, and technical testing.
MSIC employs engineering analysts, support professionals, and support assistants at the 38,000-acre Richard C. Shelby Center for Missile Intelligence [15] at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The building includes various laboratories , high-performance computing operations, and test areas, making up a vast engineering complex [ 16 ...
1 February 1956: The U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) established at Redstone Arsenal. March, 1958: Organizations placed under the new Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC) include the ABMA, Redstone Arsenal, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, White Sands Proving Grounds and the Army Rocket and Guided Missile Agency (ARGMA) [7]
Redstone Army Airfield or Redstone AAF (IATA: HUA, ICAO: KHUA, FAA LID: HUA) is a military airport located at Redstone Arsenal, six miles (10 km) southwest of the city of Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama, United States.
Located on the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, MSFC is named in honor of General of the Army George C. Marshall. The center contains the Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC), also known as the International Space Station Payload Operations Center. This facility supports ISS launch, payload, and experiment activities at the Kennedy ...
IMCOM Sustainment, located at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama and directly supports the Army Materiel Command, Military District of Washington, Army Test and Evaluation Command, Army Medical Command and U.S. Army South. IMCOM Europe, based in Germany and supports U.S. Army Europe. IMCOM Pacific, located in Hawaii and supports U.S. Army Pacific. [23]
Redstone was also deployed by the U.S. Army as the PGM-11, the first missile to carry a nuclear warhead. Studies began in 1956 for a replacement for the Redstone missile. Initially called the Redstone-S (S for solid), the name was changed to MGM-31 Pershing and a contract was awarded to The Martin Company, beginning a program that lasted 34 years.