330-PSA-122-60 (USN 1048859):   Polaris-Successful Launch, Successful Flight.   Two Polaris test vehicles from a submerged submarine July 20, 1960, in the first full scale tests of all elements of the Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile Weapons System.  The submarine making the historic launches was USS George Washington, the first of the nation’s nuclear powered missile launching submarines and one of the two scheduled to be deployed this year on operational patrol.  The submarine was cruising submerged in the Atlantic Ocean about 30 miles off Cape Canaveral, Florida, at the time of the test.    The launchings and test flights were evaluated as successful in meeting all the test objectives of live missile launch from beneath the surface of the ocean and guided flight to a pre-selected impact area.  Ranges of the flights were more than 1,000 nautical miles.  Photograph released July 21, 1960.  (8/25/2015).
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