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...Force's plans for nine squadrons of Atlas liquid-fueled ICBMs, eleven squadrons of Titan ICBMs; cost: $6 billion...
...Canaveral is the U.S. Spaceport of the Future, and today it is in full-dress rehearsal-a monumental, $370 million stage where, day and night, civilian and military scientists and technicians work with freshly blueprinted tools over the incredibly complex mechanisms of space travel. With each launching of an Atlas, Jupiter or Thor-though flames may consume the bird only minutes later-the men of Cape Canaveral are testing and proving everything from an idea to a pump, amassing the knowledge that will ensure the success of man's epochal flight into space as well as the reliability...
...Capabilities. The new Minuteman ICBM is a three-stage rocket, 57 ft. long, weighing 65,000 lbs., with predicted 5,500-mile range. It is designed to pack a thermonuclear warhead smaller than that of the liquid-fueled ICBM Atlas, but big enough to take out major targets. Its major components can be broken down to make shorter-range missiles; by itself the missile's third stage could make a useful tactical ballistic missile (TBM) with 500-to 1,000-mile range; its second and third stages would combine to make a 1,500-mile IRBM for use from...
...Force had long been concerned about the mounting costs and complexities of the U.S.'s liquid-fueled missiles-the ICBMs Atlas and Titan, the IRBMs Thor and Jupiter-and had also been aware that long-countdown liquid-fuel missiles were not weapons of true instant retaliation. Barred by the Defense Department temporarily from solid-fuel development, the Air Force was impressed by the rapid progress and strategic potential of the Navy's solid-fuel Polaris. Months ago Schriever's men got down to work adapting the Polaris' developments to Air Force concepts...
...Force's topflight aviator-engineers (Carnegie Tech, Caltech), will be to use existing ballistic missiles to boost Sputnik-type satellites into orbits. The Thor can be fitted with upper stages that will launch a satellite weighing more than one ton, said Putt, and the Atlas (none has flown full range yet) can launch a two-ton satellite, or better...