60 Minutes Goes Behind the Scenes at SMC

CBS/60 Minutes correspondent Dave Martin (left) interviews Brig. Gen. Bill Cooley, director of the GPS directorate for the Space and Missile Systems Center, next to a GPS-IIF satellite at the Boeing facility in El Segundo, California for a two-part segment on Air Force Space Command that aired April 26, 2015. (Photo by Maj Eric Simon)

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60 Minutes Goes Behind the Scenes at SMC

Space and Missile Systems Center video producer Krista Knaus and Cameraman Peter Anninos interview Brig. Gen. Bill Cooley, director of the GPS directorate at SMC, in front of a GPS-IIF satellite at the Boeing facility in El Segundo, California for a behind-the-scenes special about the general's appearance in a CBS/60 Minutes segment on Air Force Space Command that aired April 26, 2015. (Photo by Maj Eric Simon)

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60 Minutes Goes Behind the Scenes at SMC

CBS/60 Minutes correspondent Dave Martin interviews Brig. Gen. Bill Cooley (standing-left), director of the GPS directorate for the Space and Missile Systems Center, in front of a GPS-IIF satellite at the Boeing facility in El Segundo, California for a two-part segment on Air Force Space Command that aired April 26, 2015. (Photo by Maj Eric Simon)

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60 Minutes Goes Behind the Scenes at SMC

Space and Missile Systems Center video producer Krista Knaus and Cameraman Peter Anninos, with Boeing representative Kenny Chong, shoot behind-the-scenes footage at the Boeing facility in El Segundo, California for a CBS/60 Minutes two-part segment on Air Force Space Command that aired April 26, 2015. (Photo by Maj Eric Simon)

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60 Minutes Goes Behind the Scenes at SMC

CBS/60 Minutes correspondent Dave Martin (right) interviews Brig. Gen. Bill Cooley, director of the GPS directorate for the Space and Missile Systems Center, inside a special satellite test chamber at the Boeing facility in El Segundo, California for a two-part segment on Air Force Space Command that aired April 26, 2015. (Photo by Maj Eric Simon)

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60 Minutes Goes Behind the Scenes at SMC

Published April 29, 2015

Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. -- CBS/60 Minutes correspondent Dave Martin interviews Brig. Gen. Bill Cooley, director of the GPS directorate for the Space and Missile Systems Center. While in Los Angeles, 60 minutes also toured the Boeing facility where the GPS satellites are built.