The USNS Vandenberg was a missile-tracking ship operated for NASA and based at Cape Canaveral. Although the ship carried a lot of high-tech electronic equipment, she as originally built 1943 and operated by the Army Transport Service as a troop transport as the USAT General Harry Taylor.

Akademik Vladislav Volkov.
Sunk as artificial reef off Florida on 27 May 2009.

Her name should read as 'USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg TAGM10' and her IMO number is 8450653.