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Atlas rocket |
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Atlas rocketAny of a series of U.S. expendable space launch vehicles. The Atlas was originally designed as a liquid-fueled ICBM and first tested in an operational version in 1959. Early versions launched most of the Mercury manned missions and, coupled with upper-stage rockets, a number of Ranger, Surveyor, Mariner, and Pioneer probes on lunar and planetary missions. Later generations have become workhorses of the U.S. space program and carry a wide variety of scientific, military, and commercial spacecraft. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| ``I've watched, I think, every shuttle launch and this one seems more intense because of the passenger,'' said Vince Wheelock, 66, of Westlake Village, who helped build and monitor the engines of the Atlas rocket used in the Friendship 7 mission, Glenn's first. Using an Atlas rocket, NASA also plans to send aloft another weather satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series. ILS markets commercial launch missions on the Lockheed Martin Atlas rocket and on the Russian-built Proton vehicle to satellite operators worldwide. |
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