Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty team arrives at Vandenberg

Officials from the 30th Space Wing met an inspection team from the Russian Federation here March 3. The team is here to conduct an on-site verification of compliance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The United States sends similar teams to inspect former Soviet strategic weapon facilities.

Explosive ordnance training enlightens TSA

AFSPC recognizes OSS

Team, it gives me great pleasure to recognize the men and women of the 30th Space Wing Operations Support Squadron. The 30th SW OSS was recently recognized in two categories of the 2008 Air Force Space Command Airfield Operations and Aviation Resource Management Awards: Ronald D. Mccarthy Airfield

Vandenberg at a Glance - 30th Weather Squadron

AFAF campaign returns

The Air Force Assistance Fund campaign is back at Vandenberg and in the midst of its six-week campaign ending March 26. The AFAF is an annual fund-raising effort that allows Air Force active duty members, retirees, reservists, guard members and their dependants and surviving spouses to provide help

Fitness Center sponsors tennis tournament

Base beaches close as snowy plover nesting season begins

Vandenberg's beaches close once again as the nesting season begins Sunday for a tiny shorebird listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The western snowy plover nests on Vandenberg beaches from March 1 through Sept. 30 each year. To aid the species' recovery, portions of

Census Bureau to visit Vandenberg

Census Bureau employees from the Santa Maria Local Census Office visited with the base liaison here Feb. 20 to coordinate the next surveying of Vandenberg. A team of census listers are scheduled to conduct business here beginning in April and ending in May, 2009. The census listers will go

Taurus XL rocket awaits launch

Taurus XL experiences anomaly

Vandenberg and NASA officials experienced an anomaly minutes after the 1:55 a.m. launch of a Taurus XL rocket equipped with NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite today from the 576th-E Space Launch Complex here. The satellite failed to reach orbit.  Preliminary indications are that the