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Image:AtlasAgenaBMariner1.jpg 200px Atlas Agena B launch with Mariner 1 planetary probe Category:Launch Vehicle

... . We just went for it. In fact, early in this period, leading to these Atlas missions, the Atlas had a terrible record. During the ’57, '58, I don’t know when they ... I knew in the control center believed the Agena was the cause of this problem. This thing, now, we’d flown Geminis before, we’d had all this experience over the past, and ... Melvin F. Brooks was made head of the Agena and Lunar Module Systems Branch. So we melded the team of people who’d been working CSMs and LMs for Apollo and pretty ...

... . I worked that aspect of the thing, and then also the interfaces between the Atlas and the Agena… Engineering-wise, I worked those parts and ran that stuff. That was the main ... coming across then. Yes, I thought that was very clever…In general, the Agena was pretty good. The Atlas was a good vehicle. The Titan was used to launch the Gemini spacecraft ... thing… These atmospheric electricity guys… were eleated over that. "Oh, look, they triggered lightning." They'd been studying trigger lightning… and here’s an actual case. It was a big deal ...

... it weighed about sixty pounds, the guidance system on the Atlas. Sixty pounds was an awful lot of weight. I mean, we'd kill for sixty pounds. So the discussion on the ... Apollo Program to the moon. It involved rendezvousing with and lashing up a couple of Agena second-stages, to use those to get the necessary velocity to go to the moon ... do you keep yourself in place to work, and then some problems even with the Agena on one not having separated— '''Cassetti:''' Yes, the masking tape on the shroud. Yes. '''Butler ...

... and test facilities, and development testing to the point of Initial Operational Capability of the Atlas ICBM. Chapters 13 through 15 describe the activation of the initial Strategic Air Command squadrons ... well as the versatile Agena stage. The Project Mercury manned space flights with Atlas are also covered in detail. Part Two closes with a look back on the Atlas program from the personal ...

... datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Dirk D. Frimout header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Mar 21 1941 header4 = label4 = Birth Place ... Atlantis operated the twelve experiments that constituted the ATLAS-1 (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science) cargo. ATLAS-1 obtained a vast array of detailed ...

... active Junior ROTC Reserve Officer’s Training Corps program in the high schools in Washington, D.C. The program was mandatory for tenth graders and voluntary for eleventh and twelfth graders ... used binoculars since then. But I was so surprised, because I was used to an Atlas launch, long, slender, and this little short, stubby thing came up and I kept looking ... smoke, looking for the rest of it, because it just didn’t look like an Atlas. So I was there and then immediately flew out to Edwards, and I was there ...

... datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Kathryn D. Sullivan header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Oct 3 1951 header4 = label4 = Birth Place ... crew operated the twelve experiments that constituted the ATLAS-1 (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science) cargo. ATLAS-1 obtained a vast array of detailed ...

... 2004''' /The questions in this transcript were asked during an oral history session with Harold D. Beck. Beck has amended the answers for clarification purposes. As a result, this transcript does ... recording. / '''Wright:''' Today is December 9th, 2004. This oral history is being conducted with Harold D. Hal Beck in Houston, Texas, for the NASA for the Johnson Space Center Oral History ... were supporting the early Mercury planning and also the unmanned, like the Enos chimpanzee, Mercury-Atlas 5 mission and Sam Rhesus monkey, Little Joe 2 . So we did our computations then ...

... datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Kenneth D. Cameron header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ... . On his second mission he was spacecraft commander on STS-56 , carrying ATLAS-2. During this nine-day mission the crew of Discovery conducted ...

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