Atlas-Centaur
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The Atlas-Centaur was a United States expendable launch vehicle derived from the SM-65 Atlas D missile. The vehicle featured a Centaur upper stage, the first such stage to use high-performance liquid
An Atlas-Centaur launching Surveyor 1 (1966)
A Centaur stage during assembly at General Dynamics in 1962
Diagram of a Centaur stage
Technicians readying booster 104D for erection
Convair
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Convair, originally Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company created by the 1943 merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft, which later expand
Atlas-Centaur
…10/11. The vehicle would be continuously developed and improved into the 1990s, with the last direct descendant being the highly successful Atlas II. Convair, the manufacturer of the Atlas, developed the Centaur upper stage specifically for that booster, sharing its pressure-stabilized tank structure. Centaur…
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