19-1255: (Redirected from King Albert II ) Albert II may refer to: Monkeys [ edit ] Albert II (monkey) , first primate and first mammal in space, died on impact following V-2 flight June 14, 1949 People [ edit ] Albert II, Count of Namur (died 1067) Albert II, Count of Tyrol (died 1120s) Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg ( c. 1177 –1220) Albert II, Archbishop of Riga (1200–1273) Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (1240–1314), Albert II, Duke of Saxony (1250–1298) Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( c. 1268 –1318) Albert II of Austria (1298–1358) Albert II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (died 1362) Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg (1318–1379) Albert II, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing (1368–1397) Albert II, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1369–1403) Albert II of Germany (1397–1439), King of Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, Duke of Austria Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1419–1485) Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard (1400s) Albert II, Count of Hoya (1526–1563) Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1620–1667) Albert II of Belgium (born 1934), King of
38-675: A contract to New York University (NYU) to develop and fly high-altitude balloons. The 4145th was redesignated an Air Force Base Unit on 27 September 1947 during the month the USAF was created, and in late 1947 the former USAAF bombing range and the White Sands Proving Ground merged to become the New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range . The former USAAF air base was designated Holloman Air Force Base on 14 January 1948, and
57-572: The 231st AAF BU became the base operating unit, and in 1946 the post-war Alamogordo AAF was "manned by a skeleton crew merely as a plane refueling station, [for] emergency landings, etc" (the USACE property division "acquired...exclusive use of all private lands and interests within the Alamogordo Bombing Range until 1967".) In March 1947, the 1st Experimental Guided Missiles Group of Florida began Republic-Ford JB-2 testing at
76-577: The 2754th Air Force Base was its host unit after being established from the 4145th AFBU on 15 August 1948 (the 2754th AFB unit's "Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron" were established by 15 December 1948). The Alamogordo Guided Missile Test Base near Holloman AFB continued to be used for testing in 1948 and later (July 1951 – 31 August 1952), sub-base of the AFMTC in Florida , and the 2754th subsequently developed additional launch support sites at/near
95-598: The 6580th Test Support Wing . ARDC's Dr. Ernst Steinhoff "in the 1950s was building up the Air Development Center at Holloman Air Force Base through most of the decade". The center supported tests for Air Force flights and upcoming manned space flights, e.g., 1955 Project Manhigh , 1959–60 Project Excelsior , the first human tests in the rocket sled firings, and Ham , a chimpanzee, who went through astronaut training in 1959. The Air Force Missile Development Center (AFMDC. "AF Mil Dev Test Cen")
114-670: The Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range was designated on 14 May 1942. On 27 May 1942 the USAAF base was designated Alamogordo Field Training Station for range support and was subsequently named Alamogordo Army Air Base . The 359th Base Headquarters was the base operating unit for Alamorgordo AAB beginning on 10 June 1942, and the base was redesignated Alamogordo Army Air Field on 21 November 1942 and supported numerous WWII Bomber Groups (range targets were added in late 1942.) In October 1944 at Wendover Army Air Base , Utah,
133-538: The Alamogordo Guided Missile Test Base and organized with the help of Holloman Air Force Base, followed the likely preflight death of Albert I before a 39 mi (63 km) high mesospheric flight aboard a V-2 rocket on June 11, 1948. The capsule was redesigned in-between flights to enlarge the cramped quarters experienced by Albert I . Before Albert II the only previous known living beings in space were fruit flies , launched by
152-686: The Alamogordo range, and the Special Weapons Field Test Unit was inactivated when Wendover transferred to Strategic Air Command . Equipment and 1,200 personnel of the Test Unit moved to a new Alamogordo AAF unit organized 16 March 1947 ( 4145th Army Air Forces Base Unit ), and the move continued until September 1947 for R&D of pilotless aircraft, guided missiles, and other programs. The Balloon Branch at Alamogordo AAF began in 1947 after an Air Materiel Command awarded
171-482: The Belgians Albert II, Prince of Monaco (born 1958), ruler of the principality of Monaco Albert II, Prince of Thurn and Taxis (born 1983), Prince of Thurn und Taxis, German prince [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
190-588: The Holloman wing's name to the 2754th Experimental Wing (on 20 September 1949 —the 2d Guided Missiles Squadron was a subordinate from 25 October-30 December 1950), the 6540th Missile Test Group (30 June 1951, later 6580th Missile Test Group on 1 September 1952) which had an "Aero-Medical Sub-Unit...to support the Aeromedical Field Laboratory." In May 1952, an additional 40 mi × 117 mi (64 km × 188 km) area
209-690: The Special Weapons Field Test Unit was established as a detachment of the Special Weapons Branch in Ohio to evaluate captured and experimental systems such as the Republic-Ford JB-2 , a copy of the German V-1 flying bomb . South of Alamogordo AAF between White Sands National Monument and Fort Bliss , water well drilling began construction of White Sands Proving Ground (WSPG) facilities on 25 June 1945. On 25 March 1944,
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#1732772138286228-550: The United States in a V-2 rocket suborbital flight on February 20, 1947. The flies were recovered alive. This space - or spaceflight -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Air Force Missile Development Center with predecessors assigned to: The Air Force Missile Development Center and its predecessors were Cold War units that conducted and supported numerous missile tests using facilities at Holloman Air Force Base , where
247-656: The WSMR Army headquarters in November 1963. The AFMDC and the 6571st lab were inactivated on 1 August 1970; more than 450 military and 570 civilian positions were lost; and the AFSWC's 6585th Test Group was established as a tenant of Tactical Air Command , to which Holloman AFB transferred. Associate units and programs transferred to other locations within Air Force Systems Command. In addition to
266-559: The center was the host unit ("Holloman" and "Development Center" were sometimes colloquially used to identify military installations in the Tularosa Basin ). Planned for British Overseas Training which was not pursued, World War II construction for a Tularosa Basin USAAF base 6 mi (9.7 km) west of Alamogordo, New Mexico , began on 6 February 1942. A nearby military range was established by Executive Order No. 9029, and
285-567: The former bombing range (e.g., Four Bits Peak Instrumentation Annex assigned June 1949 "7 mi ESE of Alamogordo, NM"). In March 1949, the 2754th took "control of [the Army's range] support airfield, Condron Field ...from Biggs Army Air Field at Fort Bliss ." The 2754th and subsequent units' launches at the test base and other sites such as for the Tiny Tim (the first Army rocket), GAM-63 RASCAL , and XQ-2 Drone , e.g.: Reorganizations changed
304-401: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_II&oldid=1129173248 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Albert II (monkey) Albert II was a male rhesus macaque monkey who
323-502: Was designated from HADC on 1 September 1957, the year when a Matador missile from the center crashed in western Colorado (the joint range was renamed White Sands Missile Range on 1 May 1958) The 6571st Aeromedical Research Laboratory was activated 1 December 1961 as an AFMDC unit, and the center's Twin Buttes Instrumentation Annex "16 mi SSW of Alamogordo, NM" (assigned December 1949) transferred under
342-532: Was set aside to add to the "Alamogordo bombing range, White Sands proving ground, and the Fort Bliss antiaircraft range". The Holloman Air Development Test Center (later Holloman Air Development Center , HADC) was established from the 6580th Wing on 10 October 1952 while Colonel Don R. Ostrander was the commander (7 June 1952 – 26 September 1954). On 1 October 1953, HADC continued as the test unit after transferring "base operating unit" responsibilities to
361-508: Was the first primate and first mammal to travel to outer space . He flew from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States, to an altitude of 83 miles (134 km) aboard a U.S. V-2 sounding rocket on June 14, 1949. Albert died upon landing after a parachute failure caused his capsule to strike the ground at high speed. Albert's respiratory and cardiological data were recorded up to the moment of impact. Albert II's flight, run by
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