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Show Twin Athenas Fired from Green River Two Air Force Athena missiles were launched successfully Thursday from White Sands Missile Mis-sile Range's launch facility fac-ility near Green Kiver. I'tah. The research vehicles, launched at cS:3S and 10:21!. impacted as programmed pro-grammed on the national missile range in south central New Mexico. They were the liiSth and llillth Athenas to be fired from the I'.S. Army's launch complex in southeastern I'tah since the program was initialed in early IT Data collected din ing t ie vehicle's flight is used by the Army . Navy , and Air Force, as well as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Administra-tion, in study ing reentry-phenomena reentry-phenomena of space ve- hides. The missiles were launched by an Air Force industry team with the A i my providing safety and data gathering support. sup-port. In firing the missiles, a one-million acre safety safe-ty zone west of Socorro in central New Mexico was evacuated. The area was used as an impact zone for the 60-foot Athena's first stage. |