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... space­craft in gathering data preparatory to Apollo manned lunar landing. To be launched by Atlas-Agena launch vehicle, lunar­ orbiter would contain camera system capable of obtaining pic­tures not closer ... -Zeus antimissile missile, fired from Kwajalein Island in the Pacific, scored its ninth "intercept" of Atlas ICBM target fired from Vandenberg AFB , Calif. ''(M&R,9/9/63,13)'' DOD announced ...

USAF launched Atlas-Agena D combination from Vandenberg AFB with undisclosed payload. ''(M&R, 3/2/64, 12)'' NASA ... Corp. become a competitor in this area. ''(CR, 2/25/64, 3389-91)'' USAF fired Atlas E ICBM on successful 5,000-mi. flight down the Atlantic Missile Range, testing advanced ...

... 860-lb Ms IV ''(ATS-D)'' ''(Applications Technology Satel­lite)'' was launched from ETR by Atlas-Centaur booster on mission to evaluate gravity-gradient system for spacecraft stabilization in syn­chronous ... data. Ats III ''(launched Nov. 5, 1967)'' , last ATS spacecraft scheduled to be launched by Atlas-Agena D booster, had operated successfully and transmitted color photos of earth. ATS program was managed ...

... reentry and that all test sequences occurred as scheduled. ''(NASA Release 65-179)'' USAF launched Atlas-Agena D from WTR with unidentified satellite payload. ''(U.S. Aeron, & Space Act, 1965, 143)'' Army ... attempt to send a plastic replica of an astronaut's body into space aboard an Atlas missile from Vandenberg AFB . The dummy was instrumented to measure space radiation at various depths ...

... , 7/13/66, 1; Tech. Wk., 7/18/66, 17)'' USAF launched unidentified satellite with Atlas-Agena D booster from Western Test Range WTR . ''(U.S. Aeron. & Space Act., 1966, 153)'' NASA ... selected six experiments to be carried on two Mariner Mars spacecraft scheduled for launch by Atlas-Centaur boosters between early February and mid-April 1969: two television cameras, infrared spectrometer, infrared ...

... , might also give some protection against radiation. USAF launched its fifth unidentified satellite employing an Atlas-Agena B booster, from Point Arguello, Calif. In Washington, the State Department said the satellite would ... was general manager of the General Engineering Laboratory of GE in Schenectady, N.Y. An Atlas ICBM blew up on the pad during launching at Atlantic Missile Range AMR . The missile ...

... Apollo Program , covering Saturn C-1 , Saturn C-5 , Titan II missile Titan II , and Atlas-Agena launch vehicles, as well as all stages and engines connected with the vehicles. NASA announced ... transducer, which gave a false indication of the pressurization of the fuel systems in the Atlas booster. NASA announced it would begin taking applications for additional astronauts now and continue until ...

NASA Mariner Venus probe launched by Atlas-Agena B from Atlantic Missile Range AMR , the booster deviating from course at 212 seconds and ... -day Venus window on September 10, 1962, hopefully within several weeks if difficulty with the Atlas could be ascertained. Mariner had been planned to reach the vicinity of Venus about December ...

... vehicle First launching of the Atlas-Agena B (DOD) First suborbital flight by an astronaut 1961: First launching of a lunar impact vehicle First launching of an Atlas-Centaur vehicle Attainment of orbital ...

... II test satellite successfnlly launched into orbit from Atlantic Missile Range AMR by an Atlas missile Atlas -Agena launch vehicle, a test of an USAF surveillance system designed to provide warning of long ...

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