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I'm confused by one statement in the article: "Lockheed turned the Hiller Helicopter plant in East Palo Alto into the control facility for all spy satellites".
by kens 3y ago
I'm confused by one statement in the article: "Lockheed turned the Hiller Helicopter plant in East Palo Alto into the control facility for all spy satellites". Presumably the control facility was the Blue Cube (later Onizuka AFS), but that was in Sunnyvale, not East Palo Alto.
- CalChris 3y agoFirst Stanford Industrial Park and then Sunnyvale AFB which was renamed Onizuka AFB in 1986, well after the Corona Program ended in 1972.
- Kon-Peki 3y agoThe Hiller Helicopter plant was on the east side of Willow Road, just north of Ivy Drive. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanJose.htm#hiller http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanJose.htm...