Astronauts at Area 51


Message posted by astra7 on April 09, 2012 at 17:03:50 PST:

I am curious if any of the Apollo Astronauts may have ever visited Area 51...be it to land their aircraft or
train or test fly certain aircraft ?


On searching for any info on wikipedia the only ref that I could find to astronauts and Area 51 was Skylab photographing it.
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1974 Skylab photography

In January 2006, space historian Dwayne A. Day published an article in online aerospace magazine The Space Review titled "Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident." The article was based on a memo written in 1974 to CIA director William Colby by an unknown CIA official. The memo reported that astronauts on board Skylab 4 had, as part of a larger program, inadvertently photographed a location of which the memo said:

There were specific instructions not to do this. was the only location which had such an instruction.

Although the name of the location was obscured, the context led Day to believe that the subject was Groom Lake. As Day noted:

[I]n other words, the CIA considered no other spot on Earth to be as sensitive as Groom Lake.[55][56]


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