OCR Text |
Show Athena Missile Scheduled for Friday Launch Air Force officials at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico announced Wednesday that a scheduled sched-uled launch of an Air Force Athena Missile was planned for Friday afternoon, after-noon, from the Utah Launch Complex near Green River. The multi-stage research vehicle will be programmed program-med to , impact on White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. ". At the same time, Army officials said the mission will ; require evacuation of the safety area west of U. S. Highway 163 between be-tween LaSal Junction and Monti'cello. Ecacuation will begin at 12 noon Friday for a period of about six hours. Road blocks will be set on access roads leading linto the safety area at about 12:30 p.m. Officials emphasized that the U. S. Highway would not be closed to traffic during the mission. The mission is scheduled schedul-ed to be completed by 6 pjm. |