The first Engineering Development Model (EDM-1) was installed in the test ship, USS Norton Sound (AVM 1) in 1973. The computer-based command and decision element is the core of the Aegis combat ...

The X-17 Argus 3 missile prepared for launch from the aft deck of the USS Norton Sound. Credit: AEC / USDE / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons. Upon the conclusion of Operation Argus, Task Force 88 ...

Following that, he worked on the USS Norton Sound while it was dry-docked in Baltimore, Maryland, and was part of the June 20, 1964 recommissioning of the Norton Sound for weapons research.

1949 - First shipboard launching of LARK, guided missile by USS Norton Sound. 1960 - USS Triton (SSRN-586) completes submerged circumnavigation of world in 84 days following many of the routes ...

1949 - USS Norton Sound (AV 11), ... 1960 - USS John S. McCain (DL 3/DDG 36) rescues the entire 41-man crew of the sinking Japanese freighter, Shinwa Maru, in the East China Sea.

The fire began around 9:40 a.m. as the 120-foot Norton Sound ship was docked on North Harbor Drive, ripping through the vessel's lower deck levels and proving challenging for firefighters ...