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... up, slap a "Secret" cover sheet on it, because everything that involved the Atlas performance, since the Atlas was at that time our first line of strike in our nuclear forces, everything ... reviewing what was going on with the Atlas Program and what we were doing on that and getting into debates sometimes. After the meetings, we'd go over to the local watering ... it weighed about sixty pounds, the guidance system on the Atlas. Sixty pounds was an awful lot of weight. I mean, we'd kill for sixty pounds. So the discussion on the ...

... . We just went for it. In fact, early in this period, leading to these Atlas missions, the Atlas had a terrible record. During the ’57, '58, I don’t know when they ... the top. Right at the base of it that you’d drive by on the way to this peak are some Atlas launch pads. In those days we used to drive by ... had the Challenger accident. So that location had a lot of continuity from Atlas to this little site we’d go to Space Shuttle Program. Now it's, I think, being used ...

... spacecraft. I worked that aspect of the thing, and then also the interfaces between the Atlas and the Agena… Engineering-wise, I worked those parts and ran that stuff. That was ... vehicle—they immediately changed to my breakaway design, simple, no umbilicals. '''Rusnak:''' Early on, the Atlas had a lot of problems. You had mentioned that in Mercury, you were also involved ... thing… These atmospheric electricity guys… were eleated over that. "Oh, look, they triggered lightning." They'd been studying trigger lightning… and here’s an actual case. It was a big deal ...

... datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Dirk D. Frimout header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Mar 21 1941 header4 = label4 = Birth Place ... Atlantis operated the twelve experiments that constituted the ATLAS-1 (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science) cargo. ATLAS-1 obtained a vast array of detailed ...

... active Junior ROTC Reserve Officer’s Training Corps program in the high schools in Washington, D.C. The program was mandatory for tenth graders and voluntary for eleventh and twelfth graders ... used binoculars since then. But I was so surprised, because I was used to an Atlas launch, long, slender, and this little short, stubby thing came up and I kept looking ... smoke, looking for the rest of it, because it just didn’t look like an Atlas. So I was there and then immediately flew out to Edwards, and I was there ...

... datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Kathryn D. Sullivan header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Oct 3 1951 header4 = label4 = Birth Place ... crew operated the twelve experiments that constituted the ATLAS-1 (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science) cargo. ATLAS-1 obtained a vast array of detailed ...

... 2004''' /The questions in this transcript were asked during an oral history session with Harold D. Beck. Beck has amended the answers for clarification purposes. As a result, this transcript does ... recording. / '''Wright:''' Today is December 9th, 2004. This oral history is being conducted with Harold D. Hal Beck in Houston, Texas, for the NASA for the Johnson Space Center Oral History ... were supporting the early Mercury planning and also the unmanned, like the Enos chimpanzee, Mercury-Atlas 5 mission and Sam Rhesus monkey, Little Joe 2 . So we did our computations then ...

... program through work on the MX-774 prototype missile. Chapters 4 through 12 discuss the Atlas design, its production and test facilities, and development testing to the point of Initial Operational Capability of the Atlas ICBM. Chapters 13 through 15 describe the activation of the initial Strategic Air Command squadrons ...

... datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Kenneth D. Cameron header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ... . On his second mission he was spacecraft commander on STS-56 , carrying ATLAS-2. During this nine-day mission the crew of Discovery conducted ...

... ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Kenneth D. Cockrell header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Apr 9 1950 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 ... 2002). STS-56 Discovery (April 8 to April 17, 1993). STS-56 , carrying ATLAS-2, was a 9-day mission, during which the crew conducted atmospheric ...

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