Progress of Atlas and Polaris Missiles: Hearings Before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session |
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... stage , cannot be expected to fire successfully on each test . However , the Congress and the people of the Nation have been led to believe that Atlas , for instance , was so far developed it was ready to be turned over to our troops ...
... stage , cannot be expected to fire successfully on each test . However , the Congress and the people of the Nation have been led to believe that Atlas , for instance , was so far developed it was ready to be turned over to our troops ...
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... stage engine you would do somewhat better than that , but the Atlas has been actually a little better in its test program from a reliability standpoint than the Thor . Well , the Thor , subsequent to this statement of mine , reeled off ...
... stage engine you would do somewhat better than that , but the Atlas has been actually a little better in its test program from a reliability standpoint than the Thor . Well , the Thor , subsequent to this statement of mine , reeled off ...
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... stage of its flight are no longer operating . This engine here [ indicating the center engine ] is locked in place . It is called the sustainer engine . It can't move unless separation occurs . So what happened , when these engines shut ...
... stage of its flight are no longer operating . This engine here [ indicating the center engine ] is locked in place . It is called the sustainer engine . It can't move unless separation occurs . So what happened , when these engines shut ...
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... stage where all three engines operate . At staging the skirt and the two booster engines are released . Only the sustainer engine here and the little vernier engines , which you see on the side , continue to oper- ate after staging ...
... stage where all three engines operate . At staging the skirt and the two booster engines are released . Only the sustainer engine here and the little vernier engines , which you see on the side , continue to oper- ate after staging ...
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... stage ; in other words , the two booster engines and the skirt . The CHAIRMAN . After the two booster engines and the skirt left the missile , there developed a very severe fuel leak ? General SCHRIEVER . Yes . The CHAIRMAN . And that ...
... stage ; in other words , the two booster engines and the skirt . The CHAIRMAN . After the two booster engines and the skirt left the missile , there developed a very severe fuel leak ? General SCHRIEVER . Yes . The CHAIRMAN . And that ...
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30 June 31 July 80th Congress AAFB Admiral RABORN AFMTC Air Force Base Air Force Missile amended AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS ANFUSO approval Atlas Atlas missile authorized ballistic missile booster booster engines Cape Canaveral CHAIRMAN Chrysler Building classified clause committee components Contracting Officer Contractor Contractor agrees corporation deleting determined DOLLARS Eleuthera engine equipment estimated cost failures fire fixed fee fixed overhead amount flight test vehicle Force Missile Test FULTON furnish Government Property hereby hereto hereunder ICBM instrumentation launch Letter Contract liquid oxygen MCDONOUGH MCRAE ment MILLER Missile Test Center Missile Test Range motor Notice of Termination operational PAN AMERICAN WORLD paragraph patent application Patrick Air Force payments performance period Polaris missile pursuant reimbursed REVISED TECHNICAL EXHIBIT Schedule SCHRIEVER Section ship solid propellant specific subcontract Subject Invention submarine Supplemental Agreement supplies test program thereof Thor missile tion weapons system
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