Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest bottleneck in the U.S. missile program is not the development or testing of the giant birds-which have been firing successfully-but construction of the bases that would be needed to send them winging against an enemy. The U.S. now has six operational Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles-and by schedule should now have 18. Later this year twelve Atlases will be operational, whereas there should be more than 30. Last week 56 top executives of companies that make the Atlas and its launching sites returned home from Washington after a rousing pep talk from Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates...
...seven U.S. Project Mercury astronauts watched from a Cape Canaveral bunker, an Atlas roared off into the rain-soaked skies carrying the first spaceborne production model of the Mercury capsule. But 65 seconds after the blastoff, the Atlas exploded and disintegrated. From the capsule itself came radio signals for 3½ minutes after the launching, indicating that only the Atlas booster had been destroyed, that the capsule had hit the sea intact. A day later recovery teams retrieved sections of the capsule from the ocean...
...possibilities of the one-ton space cabin, a duplicate of the capsule in which the first astronaut will ride in the first attempted manned space flight-originally scheduled for this year but now probably delayed until 1961. As far as National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists could tell, the Atlas had been programing properly; the failure was a result of an "explosion or structural disintegration" of the missile...
...Boathouse. For Acoustica's gangling Chairman Robert L. Rod, 40, the Atlas contract is the climax of five years of building up his ultrasonics business from a shop in a Long Island boathouse to a leading position in ultra-high sound systems (TIME...
...want and then develop the products. Instead, they go to the Small Business Administration and plead their smallness. Rod set out aggressively to cultivate younger officers in the Pentagon, to find out service needs, and in 1956, the Air Force asked Acoustica if it had any ideas for the Atlas. Rod thought that the sensor would be just the thing. To get on the master bidders' list of defense contractors for other company products, he inundated procurement officers with promotion material about Acoustica...