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From Western Development Division in 1954 to Space Systems Command Today: Securing the Highest Frontier

The U.S. Space Force celebrates its 5th anniversary this December, and Space Systems Command marks its third anniversary as a USSF Field Command in August. But before all of that, there was the Western Development Division, SSC’s original predecessor organization. Since July 1, 1954, seventy years ago, the Western Development Division was activated by the U.S. Air Force to work on the urgent mission of developing our Nation’s first intercontinental ballistic missile in a race to outpace the Soviet nuclear threat.

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