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ARMY BALLISTIC MISSILE AGENCY (ABMA) American rockets Reunion of 60 vintage silver prints in an album, some with NASA text on the back. Some 27 x 20.5 cm, 25.5 x 20.5 cm and 27 x 21 cm ABMA was an American military agency founded on February 1, 1956 at Redstone Arsenal Air Force Base, near Huntsville, Alabama, under the direction of Major Bruce Medaris, with Wernher von Braun as Technical Director. On October 21, 1959, President Eisenhower approved the transfer of all ABMA activities to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, whose operational centers were the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, Alabama) and the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Merritt Island, Florida.
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ARMY BALLISTIC MISSILE AGENCY (ABMA) American rockets Reunion of 60 vintage silver prints in an album, some with NASA text on the back. Some 27 x 20.5 cm, 25.5 x 20.5 cm and 27 x 21 cm ABMA was an American military agency founded on February 1, 1956 at Redstone Arsenal Air Force Base, near Huntsville, Alabama, under the direction of Major Bruce Medaris, with Wernher von Braun as Technical Director. On October 21, 1959, President Eisenhower approved the transfer of all ABMA activities to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, whose operational centers were the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, Alabama) and the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Merritt Island, Florida.
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