A Global Positioning System IIF satellite50 SW Leaps Onto Fast-Track Tempo -- Schriever Air Force Base
SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- When it opened for business in 1985, the installation now known as Schriever Air Force Base didn't operate any satellites at all.
During the following few years, as operations floors were constructed, satellite control operations slowly transferred from Onizuka Air Force Station, Calif.
Falcon AFS was originally planned to be a small, operations focused installation, with most of its support functions coming from the main installation at nearby Peterson AFB. That all had changed by 1992, when Air Force leaders decided neighborhood encroachment wouldn't pose a problem on the rolling foothills east of Colorado Springs -- and the 50th Space Wing took root.
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My Comment: Some info on a part of the US military that we rarely hear about.
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