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Image:TATAgenaD.jpg 200px Thrust Augmented Thor with Agena D stage Category:Launch Vehicle

... : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 271 pages, $4.50'' Documentary history of the development of the Thor intermediate range ballistic missile. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and ...

Image:AgenaA.jpg 200px Agena A upper stage Category:Spacecraft

Image:AtlasAgenaBMariner1.jpg 200px Atlas Agena B launch with Mariner 1 planetary probe Category:Launch Vehicle

Image:ThorAbleStarTransit3A.jpg 200px Thor Able Star with Transit 3A satellite Category:Launch Vehicle

... airliner within 10 years. Tave ( Thor-Agena Vibration Experiment), flown with Thor-Agena launching ALOUETTE satellite on Sept. 29, measured low-frequency vibrations to Agena stage and spacecraft interfaces during Thor boost phase, it was reported ... the launch vibration environment of the Thor-Agena B rocket. Demonstration that these techniques were sound is most important in designing future experiments and structures for the Thor Agena vehicles," Goddard project experimenter James ...

... DOD announced agreement for NASA Use of USAF-developed Agena launch vehicles, replacing Feb. 1961 agreement under which NASA used Atlas-Agena and Thor-Agena vehicles for Ranger, Mariner, and Alouette projects. Signed by ... USAF will be responsible for design, engineering, and acceptance testing of basic Atlas and Thor vehicles and Agena D stages, with NASA buying these from USAF; NASA will have responsibility for all ...

... launch of unidentified satellite with Thor-Agena Booster from Vandenberg AFB . This was 100th launch with Thor as space booster, 93 of which were considered successful. To date, Thor launched more satellites and probes ... satellites as Thor-Delta . Thor-Able-Star (Vanguard-derived upper stages) combination launched series of USN navigation satellites, Army communications satellites, and tri-service ANNA geodetic satellite. With Agena upper stage, Thor boosted series ...

... . Joint DOD-NASA Agena D Agreement signed which would authorize the DOD to develop a standardized Agena D stage for joint use with the Atlas and Thor first stages. Agena D is designed to ... land elsewhere. USAF announced launching of an unidentified satellite from Vandenberg AFB , Calif., using a Thor-Agena B booster. FRIENDSHIP 7 space capsule arrived in Ghana in its global exhibition tour. Sir ...

... , on our moon landing, and then to consider Mars." Unidentified payload launched by USAF with Thor-Agena vehicle from Vandenberg AFB . Two tandem 600-ft.-tall research balloons launched from Palestine, Texas ... Research Center , Associate Administrator Robert C. Seamans , Jr., announced. Transfer included Atlas and Thor boosters used with Agena B upper stage. Dr. Seamans said the transfer, which would be completed within three ...

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