Launch Complexes 21-22

• Goose/Bull Goose
• Mace A
• Mace B

Other Programs

• None

Cost: $1,199,603

History of Launch Complex

• Construction started 1956 by the Corps of Engineers
• Air Force accepted Launch Complex 21/22 (soft pads) 26 February 1957
• Van parking behind the sandbag revetment was used to launch the missiles. A periscope behind the revetment provided a visual check of the pad
• The blockhouse, underground utility room and underground cable trenches from the blockhouse to utility room and on to the Pads completed 1958
• Supported 5 dummy and 15 live Bull Goose missile launches from 13 March 1957 to 5 December 1958
• First dummy Bull Goose launch 13 March 1957 from Launch Complex 22 and last on 5 December 1958 from Launch Complex 21. Total of 5 dummy Bull Goose were launched, 2 from Launch Complexes 21 & 3 and from Launch Complex 22
• First live Bull Goose launch from Pad 22 (soft pad) was 27 June 1957 and last was 28 November 1958, total of 13
• Two live Bull Goose were launched from Launch Complex 21
• Launch Complex 21 rebuilt in 1959-60. Facilities included two hardened launch pads, new control building next to the pads and support facilities. Control building was the launch control center for the Mace launches
• Completed on 12 February 1960 for Mace, 21-1 southern most cell & 21-2 northern most cell (hard pads)
• First soft pad launch (Pad 22) of Mace A, 29 October 1959 and last 24 June 1960, a total of 7 Mace A launches. No Mace was launched from Launch Complex 21 soft pad
• First Mace A hard site (21-1) launch was 11 July 1960 and the first launch from 21-2 was on 21 October 1960
• First Mace B launch on 7 March 1961 was a hard site (21-1) launch
• First launch from Launch Complex 21-2 was 16 March 1961
• A total of 44 Mace A and Mace B winged cruise missile launched from Launch Complexes 21 & 22
• Last Mace A launch on 8 November 1962 and last Mace B launch on 17 July 1963, both from Launch Complex 21-1
• Complex vacated after 1964
• Reassigned to U.S. Army for use as a Dragon missile range on 2 November 1970. Two launchers were proposed. Army dropped the idea and returned complex to Air Force on 23 July 1971
• Deactivated in the early 1970s
• Blockhouse served as a storage building for the Delta program equipment. Later as a storage/armory for the U.S. Coast Guard
• Computer Science Raytheon utilized the Control Building for storage