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DD Form 1721-2 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 1721-2, Space Test Program After Action Report, September 2006. Stated purpose: Space Test Program After Action Report. Edition date not stated; status not stated.
Prescribing authority: not stated. Proponent: not stated. Unlike service-specific publications, DD forms carry Department-level authority and apply across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 4 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 52.
Xfdl is present in the set. The format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms — long the Defense standard for electronic forms — and needs the matching viewer; pdf applications will report the file as unreadable.
All formats download free of charge. Pdf files open in any modern reader; interactive fields behave most predictably in a desktop application, less so in browser viewers.
What the form asks for
- 5. Objective.
- 6. Flight data. a. Launch Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- b. Mission duration (mission/experiment).
- c. Launch vehicle.
- d. Launch site.
- e. Host vehicle/platform.
- f. Inclination.
- g. Orbit (km). Apogee.
- Plus.
- Minus.
- Perigee.
- Plus.
- Minus.
- h. Special characteristics.
- i. Experiment cost (millions of dollars).
- j. Experiment weight (kg).
- k. Experiment volume (cc).
- l. Nominal/peak power (w).
- m. Picture of experiment (insert file or cut and paste).
- Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- Part 1 - Request for Spaceflight. 1. Experiment title.
- 2. Short title/acronym.
- 3. Experiment number.
- 4. Sponsor organization.
Order of completion: identification block first, substantive entries second, certification and signature last. The blank is laid out in that sequence and the sequence is not arbitrary — later entries often depend on data established in the header.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
After completion, the copy goes to the office designated by not stated or by local procedure. Retention of a personal copy is ordinary practice and costs nothing.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1721-2?
- DD Form 1721-2, Space Test Program After Action Report, September 2006
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?