Atlas (rocket family)
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Atlas is a family of US missiles and space launch vehicles that originated with the SM-65 Atlas. The Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile program was initiated in the late 1950s by General Dynamic
Atlas-B with SCORE payload, at LC-11, 1958
Mercury-Atlas 9 at Launch Complex 14
Launch of an Atlas V 401 carrying the LRO and LCROSS
Atlas Able
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
Atlas (rocket family)
…boosters launched the first four US astronauts to orbit the Earth (in contrast to the preceding two Redstone suborbital launches). The Atlas-Agena and Atlas-Centaur satellite launch vehicles were also derived directly from the original Atlas. The Atlas-Centaur was evolved into the Atlas II, various models of which…
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