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... as General Marshall's tours as Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State. ''(NASA Photo)'' Atlas engine using flox (30% fluorine, 70% liquid oxygen) oxidizer with its normal RP-1 kerosene ... . ''(SBD, 2/26/64, 304)'' USAF planned 71 Atlas-Agena firings during 1964-66 period and NASA planned 26 Atlas-Agena and five Atlas launches, Aviation Week reported. Initial launch rate planned for ...

... can be improved to satisfy new requirements. Improvement of a flight proven system such as Atlas is inherently more efficient and economical than designing new vehicles for new missions. Research and development costs are already expended and Atlas has certainly proven its reliability. . . ." ''(CR, 3/4/64, A1115)'' ComSatCorp applied to FCC for ...

... Command Pilot Thomas Stafford and Pilot Eugene Cernan was to have followed 99 min. after Atlas-Agena launch; Gemini spacecraft was to rendezvous and dock with Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV ... and procedures. Simultaneous countdown of the Gemini Launch Vehicle/Spacecraft and the Atlas-Agena had progressed smoothly and the Atlas launch was normal until 121 sec. after liftoff. Then, said the Flight ...

... the Soviet way has So far rested." ''(Science and Public Affairs, 9/69, 28-35)'' Atlas published translation of article in L'Espresso, Rome, by Italian novelist Alberto Moravia on implications ... are now at the end of history-and post-history is just beginning." ''(Atlas, 9/69, 40-3)'' Atlas said its "Talk of the World" section had "got a little hoarse" on ... Pedro Paulet Mostajo had invented a jet-propelled rocket back in 1895." Atlas commented that "this could go on forever." ''(Atlas, 9/69, 10)'' In Astrophysical Journal, Princeton Univ. astronomers Jeremiah P ...

... told him the venture was planned for late next year. USAF' Atlas missile flight-test series was completed with successful Atlas F (flight 5,000 mi. down Atlantic Missile Range AMR . witnessing the launch was "father" of the Atlas-Karel J. Bossart, project engineer at GD/A since five-engine Atlas D evelopment was initiated in 1946. DOD canceled program in ... . Since then 151 Atlases were launched (105 of them from AFMTC) with 108 successes. Future Atlas missiles launched from Cape Canaveral would be involved in space-probe missions or in testing ...

... Corp. conducted test flight. DOD announced Nike-Zeus antimissile missile successfully intercepted Atlas ICBM over the Pacific Ocean. Target Atlas was launched from Vandenberg AFB , Calif., and two Nike-Zeus missiles were ... Center to NASA Lewis 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 ...

... properly during checkout 40 min before liftoff, "so sometime between T-30 minutes and the Atlas sustainer engine shutdown ignition of the Centaur stage, this component failed." Investigators had assumed "that ... quality. .." Vincent L. Johnson, Deputy Associate Administrator, OSSA, described checkout problem with propellant utilization in Atlas-Centaur 23. Short had been discovered in system that measured amount of hydrogen and oxygen ...

... 8th launch in a series of 10 INTELSAT V -type international telecommunications satellites aboard an Atlas Centaur for no earlier than March 7 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. NASA had ... geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean. Lewis Research Center ( Lewis Research Center LeRC ) managed the Atlas Centaur development and operations, and the Kennedy Space Center ( KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC ) managed vehicle ...

... by Greece and Cyprus, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard an Atlas 5 rocket with a Russian RD-180 motor. The 3.45-tonne (3.8-ton ... Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. The launch, the second for the Atlas 5 series, was the 65th consecutive successful flight for the Lockheed Martin -built ... International Launch Services (ILS). ( Lockheed Martin , “ILS Launches Hellas-Sat on Atlas V~65 Successes in a Row for Atlas,” news release, 13 May 2003, http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases ...

... the completion of flight-testing of all major new systems in the Atlas line. The U.S. military had designed Atlas 5 under its Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle ( EVOLVED EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE EELV ) Program.(Spacewarn Bulletin, no. 597; Associated Press, “Most Powerful Atlas Rocket Carries Cablevision Satellite into Space,” 18 July 2003. NASA issued new safety standards for ...

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