Word: thor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Lobs Thor...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif--An Air Force crew lobbed a combatype Thor missile 1,500 miles westward over the Pacific missile range Tuesday...
...foot high Thor was fired by the same type of crew that would launch it in the field under combat conditions...
Headache & Bonanza. Wade's training shots of Thor, Atlas and second-generation missiles (perhaps the solid-fuel Minuteman) will soar over the vast National Pacific Missile Range, be scored for hits and misses by naval units reporting to nearby Point Mugu Naval-Air Missile Test Center. Already experienced at its work, the twelve-year-old Navy center has been scoring its own Sparrow and Bullpup guided missiles over a short ocean range, safely sent ship-based Regulus missiles over the mountains 500 miles inland to impact at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. Now enlarging to handle bigger missiles-perhaps...
...first shot, scheduled for next month, will use a Thor IRBM as its first stage and is expected to put 1,300 lbs. in orbit. The instrument payload, said Johnson, will weigh "several hundred pounds." Later shots will use Atlas ICBMs as boosters and will put as much as five tons in orbit. Some of the satellites will carry live animals, including a "primate," and attempts will be made to bring them back alive...