| | The 1st KLF launch -- the USAF's ait-1. |
| | | The ait-1 begins it's 1000 mile flight downrange. |
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| | ait-2 blasts off into a beautiful Kodiak sky. |
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| | A Lockheed-Martin Athena 1 on the pad prior to KLF's first orbital launch. |
| | | An aerial view of the Kodiak Launch Facility. |
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| | Great views, big surf and a spaceport -- Narrow cape has it all (and a hotel). |
| | | GMD Program Director Major General John Holly. |
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| | The 54.5 foot-long GBI is made by Orbital and Raytheon makes the kill vehicle. |
| | | 22 July 2004 -- The 1st GMD GBI w/EKV is lowered into silo 101 at Ft. Greely. |
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| | I'm stoked it is there, lets just make sure we never have to use it. |
| | | June 2005 -- Ft. Greely and the GMD system. |
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| | Tighter view of the secure GMD installation. |
| | | Looking down on the silos... |
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| | ...with six interceptors snug in their nests. |
| | | Amazing progress -- oh what a few hundred million bucks can do. |
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| | Gleaming shovels and VIP hardhats await the GMD groundbreaking on 15 June 02. |
| | | Political, military and industry bigwigs break ground on the GMD system. |
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| | Antinuke & anti-antimissile protestors outside the Ft. Greely gate. |
| | | Senator Ted Stevens: if Alaska has a Big Daddy, he is it. |
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| | Comet Ikeya-Zhang hangs over the Chilkat Mountains. |
| | | An EC-18B on deck at Elmendorf prior to the ait-1 launch. |
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| | The USAF/USN HAARP ionospheric heater array at Gakona. |
| | | Hail Columbia: the 2nd landing at Edwards. RIP the crew of STS-107. |
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| | The aurora generated by the Great Proton Storm of January 2005. |
| | | Comet Machholz over the Ted Stevens International Airport. |
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| | Taurus, The Pleiades and Comet Machholz (green fuzzy patch at right). |
| | | January 2005 -- The Wolf Moon over Cook Inlet. |
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