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... , modifying the umbilical tower, and enlarging the flame trench. The Lockheed Martin Atlas team planned to launch the first Atlas 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2005. (Associated Press, “Air Force Sends Spy Satellite into Space,” 2 December 2003; Justin Ray, “Atlas Soars on Secret Mission Under Cover of Darkness,” Spaceflight Now, 2 December 2003. November 2003 ...

... Agency CEO - Gerry Anderson obituary 116-118 - - '''VOL. 55 No. 4''' '''April 2013''' - The Mighty Atlas Part 9: A bigger lift. We continue our in-depth story of the ... revisits a conversation dating back almost 40 years. 185 - The Mighty Atlas Part 10: Variations on a theme When Atlas was selected as the launch vehicle for Mercury orbital flights the big ... substantial modification and added safety features. Joel Powell takes up the story of the Mercury Atlas for John Glenn. 186-189 - Air-launched lifter Swiss Space Systems is proposing to develop ...

... 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 ... . Yes, I thought that was very clever…In general, the Agena was pretty good. The Atlas was a good vehicle. The Titan was used to launch the Gemini spacecraft. I remember ... 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 ...

... and the launch vehicle and all that. But we were having trouble with the Centaur, Atlas-Centaur rocket at the time, too, and Langley figured they could do that mission on an Atlas-Agena, with a little lunar orbiter, and they did. So we switched it, and they ... 1 with an Agena, I think, would handle the Surveyor mission a lot better than Atlas-Centaur, and it would have in terms of weight. But it didn't exist. So ...

... testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The testing is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative ... their destinations, including carrying NASA's Curiosity science rover to Mars. The CST-100 and Atlas V, connected with the launch vehicle adaptor, performed exactly as expected and confirmed our expectations ...

... has no present application. . . .” ''(Wash. Post, 1/15/63, A1, A7)'' NASA decision to procure Atlas-Agena B vehicles directly from contractors, thus eliminating USAF as procurement was predicted in Aviation ... flights, Ogo , Oao , Ranger , and Mariner R . Prime vehicle contractors were General Dynamics /Astronautics for Atlas stage and Lockheed for Agena ; USAF had vehicle integration responsibility. ''(Av. Wk., 1/14/63 ...

... as full-scale mockup of Saturn V's first stage boat tail, Gemini-Titan, Mercury-Atlas, Delta, and the X-15. ''(Goddard News, 5/4/64, 3)'' USAF information office Was ... New York Herald Tribune as saying that since 1959, 12 SAC operational training missions of Atlas ICBM had been failures AF had called in General Dynamics Corp. engineers to help solve ... . W. A. Davis, asked at Cape Kennedy press conference to comment on the recently reported Atlas ICBM failures at Vandenberg AFB , said: "There are several possible reasons for the failures. The ...

... panels withstood flight-loads and jettisoned properly; structural integrity of Atlas and Centaur stages during all phases of flight were verified; Atlas-Centaur separation operated satisfactorily; operation of the guidance system was demonstrated; and capability of Atlas-Centaur to be launched at scheduled time was demonstrated, the vehicle lifting off only four ...

... , 16; NASA Archives)'' NASA officials told Missiles and Rockets that Phase I of the floxed Atlas development program, which was to end this year, would be continued until mid-1965. Also ... motor, would ride into space on the side Of an Atlas missile making a re-entry test. Near the peak of the Atlas' flight, 0V-1 would spring away, coast for a few seconds, and be launched into orbit by its own rocket. The Atlas would continue on its mission. ''(PI, NYT, 11/10/64, 34)'' Air Force Systems Command ...

... Aviation Co. ''(NYT, 6/11/65)'' Formation of a program to achieve a more powerful Atlas booster for future Agena and Centaur missions was announced by NASA, Presently designated SLV-3X ... supervise; General Dynamics Convair Div. was expected to receive the contract. Use of an uprated Atlas would increase the Surveyor mission capability by 600 lbs, and would permit similar payload increases ...

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