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...Force comment on the launching, first successful one for the Atlas, said success came "on a limited range." "The missile flew its prescribed course and landed in the pre-selected impact area, officials stated...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 17--The Air Force successfully launched an Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile today. "Atlas" travelled several hundred miles and landed in a pre-selected target area...
Along with reports that both an Atlas ICBM and a satellite-carrying Vanguard rocket will be launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. in early December, the week brought solid missile news. Items...
This week, even as the Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas awaits its third flight test at Cape Canaveral, Fla., a $40 million industry to make Atlas is already in pilot production; the SAC teams that will fire Atlas are already in training at Air Force Missileman Major General Ben A. Schriever's headquarters in California. The Atlas' first field unit was recently activated as the ist ballistic Missile Division, U.S.A.F. The argument between the bomber generals and the missile generals has been overrated. Says Bomber General LeMay: '.'We're not wedded to the bomber...
...fact: the Truman Administration muddled along spending about $1,000,000 a year on long-range ballistics missilery (while a lot of the progress was made by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, paying for experiments on the Atlas ICBM out of its own pocket). Moreover, Chrysler's able Keller, far from being a czar, was an "appraiser" of the missile program, did his able job within that limited authority...