Vandenberg Launch Complex 576A

Launch Complex 576A, also known as Area 576, is a group of rocket launch pads at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

The pads at the complex were used from 1959 until 1971 to launch SM-65 Atlas missiles.

The site was also known as Complex ABRES.

[1] Pads in Area 576A include 576-A-1,2,3[2] The first operational launch of an Atlas missile by the Strategic Air Command was conducted from 576-A-2 by the 576th Strategic Missile Squadron on September 9, 1959.

It impacted 4,480 nautical miles (8,300 km) away, near Wake Island.