Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braun, the same equipment plus a few more tricks can put 50% more weight on orbit. But he and other Army men point out that the Redstone is a comparatively small rocket, not nearly so powerful as the ones that launched the Russian Sputniks, or as military rockets-Atlas, Thor, etc.-now being tested in the U.S. Dr. Jack E. Froelich of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that the Army's Jupiter rocket (not to be confused with the Jupiter-C) could boost a much bigger satellite into an orbit, or even send it around the moon...
Cats & Guts. Even angrier was Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., wartime fighter pilot and vice president of Convair (prime contractor on the Atlas ICBM). The Pentagon, said Airman Lanphier, indulges in "dangerous semantics" by indicating that the Atlas will be reliably operational in the near future. Actually, said he, the Russians are two to three years ahead of the U.S. ICBM program because they have tested "hundreds" more parts. Convair could double its efforts on Atlas if the Pentagon so ordered, accelerate its B58 bomber program by three or four months and put 50 times as much work into its anti...
...Pace sees it, is not to reach too far ahead, but to plan carefully what it feels can be accomplished in the next 25 years. Its scientists have already placed on Washington desks a four-phase plan that would put manned satellites into space within five years. An improved Atlas would, by mid-1959, put a reconnaissance satellite into orbit 350 miles up to transmit televised images to earth. This would be followed by a series of satellites that, by early 1960, would keep a 24-hour watch on every part of the earth's surface. By late...
...Each Atlas launching tests different components in the missile. Last week's flight was not for distance, but to make the first test of the small rocket engines on the side of the missile that 1) maintain speed while the missile cuts off its two take-off engines (after about 130 sec. in flight), leaving only the main sustaining engine; and 2) control direction and velocity of the missile...
...ENTRY in field of solid rocket fuels, Astrodyne, Inc., will be formed as joint subsidiary of North American Aviation, Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Co. Astrodyne hopes to produce fuels to outdo those used in North American's liquid-propelled engines for Atlas, Thor, Jupiter missiles...