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El Segundo (/ ˌ ɛ l s ə ˈ ɡ ʌ n d oʊ / EL sə-GUN-doh, Spanish: [el seˈɣundo]; Spanish for 'The Second') [7] is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.Located on Santa Monica Bay, it was incorporated on January 18, 1917, and is part of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments.
[6] [7] On June 25, 1960, at a press conference held at the U.S. Air Force Ballistic Missile Division headquarters in El Segundo, California, Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever announced the "formation of a new nonprofit organization, The Aerospace Corporation, to serve the Air Force in the scientific and technical planning and management of missile ...
Los Angeles Air Force Base (LAAFB) is a United States Space Force base located in El Segundo, California.Los Angeles Air Force Base houses and supports the headquarters of the Space Systems Command field command of the United States Space Force, which was established on August 13, 2021. [2]
The facility was originally built by Nash Motors in 1946 and begun production in 1948, building the Nash Rambler. Howard Hughes' Hughes Aircraft Company formed the Aerospace Group within the company when they bought the facility in 1955, [1] when the Nash company became American Motors Corporation and divided the facility into:
El Segundo — a coastal city in the South Bay region of southwestern Los Angeles County, California. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Founded in 1949 by Frank S. Wyle (1919–2016) [1] as part of the rapidly expanding Southern California aerospace industry, Wyle Laboratories, Inc. began operations in El Segundo, California as a testing laboratory. [2] Frank S. Wyle was married to Edith R. Wyle and is the grandfather of actor Noah Wyle and artist Sonia Romero.
El Segundo most often refers to El Segundo, California. El Segundo may also refer to: El Segundo (horse) El Segundo blue butterfly; El Segundo High School; El Segundo Unified School District; El Segundo (LACMTA station) El Segundo Boulevard; El Segundo Freeway, name for Interstate 105 in California
The Hawthorne–El Segundo Line was an interurban railway route of the Pacific Electric Railway. It was built to transport oil from the Standard Oil Refinery in El Segundo and also saw passenger service. Unlike most corridors which hosted Pacific Electric passengers, the line remains largely intact as the Union Pacific El Segundo Industrial Lead.