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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated May 15, 1961 reads "Blasts have reduced desert sands to rock." The article partially reads "Three structures of steel and concrete--one of them 'darn near as big as a football field'--point skyward out of flat desert country at Edwards Air Force Base. The site is 180 acres on Leuhman Ridge where the free world's largest complex of multi-million pound thrust test stands is entering the final phase of readiness to test the 1.5-million-pound thrust F-1 engine."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
United States.--Air Force Men--California--Edwards Air Force Base Rocket engines Air bases--United States Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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