Word: thor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only one of Douglas' troubles. The phasing out of manned aircraft and quick changes in missile technology are leaving the company without a bread-and-butter contract. Items: ¶ The Thor program is fast ending...
Though there are firm orders (twelve units) for the Thor Delta, the production peak has been passed. The last Thor was delivered last month. ¶ The Air Force's Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile, may eventually be a big program (some estimates put it well over $500 million), but it is still in the early development stages and is by no means large enough to fill the hole left by Thor...
With a huge gush of smoke and flame, the three-stage Thor-Able rocket last week roared from its Cape Canaveral launching pad, soon to swirl its 270-lb. package into orbit around the earth. To the scientific skeptics who claim that satellites are little more than spectacular stunts, that package provided a spectacularly practical answer: looking down from hundreds of miles in space, it could take and transmit pictures of the earth and its cloud-splotched atmosphere. At the very least...
...five seconds past 8 a.m. one morning last week, the Thor-Able rocket took off from its pad at Cape Canaveral with a symmetrical gush of flame and climbed into the morning sky. Above the clouds, the second-stage rocket, the Able part of the act, took over and burned as scheduled. Unseen in space, four paddle-batteries sprang into position. At an altitude of 300 miles, the solid-propellant third stage fired and pushed its speed to 24,869 m.p.h...
Britain $132 (incl. Thor IRBMs...