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ELEVEN months ago, in a cover story on the Air Force's missile boss. Major General Bernard Schriever, TIME told the story of the U.S.'s first liquid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, the Atlas. So fast has been the pace of missile development that Schriever and the Air Force are already hard at work on a new missile system that may ultimately make Atlas look like a Zeppelin. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Second Generation...
...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...
This week it closed the third major deal of its move into U.S. oil with the purchase of the oil holdings of Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., for about $20 million, in a cash and stock swap. This deal runs its oil reserves up to 40 million bbl., gas to 275 billion cu. ft., crude production to 10,000 bbl. a day, and refinery capacity...
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...
...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...