USNS Redstone (T-AGM-20) was a Missile Range Instrumentation Ship. The Redstone was operated by the Military Sea Transportation Service. Originally built as the Mission De Pala, named for Mission San Antonio de Pala in eastern San Diego County, California, she was a Type T2-SE-A2 tanker, for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. After the war, the tanker was transferred to the U.S. Navy for operation by the Naval Transportation Service as Mission De Pala (AO-114) and later the successor Military Sea Transportation Service as USNS Mission De Pala (T-AO-114). In 1964, she was sent into the shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, for her conversion into a missile-range instrumentation ship. She was later assigned to Apollo space mission support under the control of the Eastern Range. For a brief time during conversion the ship was named Johnstown with the designation AGM‑20, before redesignated the USNS Redstone. She was removed from service on Aug. 6, 1993.
| Date Taken: | 07.19.1979 |
| Date Posted: | 04.24.2025 08:41 |
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