Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much power; at best, scientists estimated, Ranger III might pass within 25,000 miles of the moon-close enough, perhaps, to send back some TV pictures of its surface. Then a handsome lieutenant colonel of the Marine Corps, John Glenn, 40, eased himself into his cramped capsule atop an Atlas-D rocket at Cape Canaveral...
...Kennedy did not neglect strategic nuclear deterrents. He called for a step-up in ballistic missile production, particularly of Atlas and Titan ICBMs; for funds to build twelve more Polaris submarines to be started in '63 and '64, bringing the planned total to 41; for a 1,200-plane operational force of transcontinental bombers (one-eighth of them on continuous airborne alert), and for a step-up in the production of nuclear weapons. He also requested $700 million for civil defense, including a $460 million program for shelter construction in community buildings. His entire 1963 defense budget assumes...
...Each Atlas missile requires a five-man operating crew. But a three-man crew, working from a concrete bunker 60 ft. below the surface, can fire up to ten Minutemen. Such savings make the Minuteman the nation's cheapest intercontinental missile by far. At an estimated $3,000,000 per missile (counting costs of installation and ground equipment), the Minuteman costs less than half as much as the Navy's Polaris, a solid-fueled, second-generation missile that can be fired by a submarine from beneath the sea's surface. Originally, the Air Force planned to load...
...single target, the Zeus cannot make a choice when a "package," or barrage of missiles appears. Finally, last week's Nike Hercules target missile was tracking at only 3,000 m.p.h. In a test scheduled for the Pacific next summer, the Nike Zeus will attempt to down an Atlas missile hurtling at 17,000 m.p.h...
...Could these distant subscribers really care about the new school budget or the fortunes of the high school football teams? Or were they more concerned with any and all news of Abilene's Dyess Air Force Base, a vital Strategic Air Command installation whose ring of twelve underground Atlas missile silos had just been armed with its first bird...