Progress of Atlas and Polaris Missiles: Hearings Before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U. S. House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session. July 28 and 29, 1959 |
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... successful firing . In addition , we have been disturbed by the mal- function of the Polaris submarine - launched ... successfully on each test . However , the Congress and the people of the Nation have been led to believe that Atlas ...
... successful firing . In addition , we have been disturbed by the mal- function of the Polaris submarine - launched ... successfully on each test . However , the Congress and the people of the Nation have been led to believe that Atlas ...
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... successful development and earliest possible deployment of the Atlas weapon system . There is nothing new in the keen sense of urgency we have felt as we have sought the solutions to the problems which have recently been encountered in ...
... successful development and earliest possible deployment of the Atlas weapon system . There is nothing new in the keen sense of urgency we have felt as we have sought the solutions to the problems which have recently been encountered in ...
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... successful . You may recall that the B series Atlas was the first to incorporate the sustainer en- gine . By this very successful series of flight tests we confirmed the fundamental objectives of the development program ; that is , the ...
... successful . You may recall that the B series Atlas was the first to incorporate the sustainer en- gine . By this very successful series of flight tests we confirmed the fundamental objectives of the development program ; that is , the ...
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... successful flights in a row . So you never know what happens in these programs . The Atlas proceeded to reel off five un- successful flight in a row . So these are the problems that we run into in the test programs for these types of ...
... successful flights in a row . So you never know what happens in these programs . The Atlas proceeded to reel off five un- successful flight in a row . So these are the problems that we run into in the test programs for these types of ...
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... successful B series tests , and the first couple of C flights , that we would be able to meet this , because everything else was going along on schedule - the construction of the facilities , the training program . Mind you , it was a ...
... successful B series tests , and the first couple of C flights , that we would be able to meet this , because everything else was going along on schedule - the construction of the facilities , the training program . Mind you , it was a ...
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30 June 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 CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Contracting Officer Contractor Contractor agrees corporation deleting determined DOLLARS engine equipment estimated cost failures fire fixed fee flight test vehicle Force Missile Test FULTON furnish Government Property hereby hereto hereunder ICBM instrumentation launch Letter Contract LIBRARY OF CONGRESS liquid oxygen maintenance 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 personnel Polaris missile pursuant REDSTONE MISSILE reimbursed REVISED TECHNICAL EXHIBIT Schedule SCHRIEVER Section solid propellant specific subcontract Subject Invention submarine Supplemental Agreement supplies test program thereof Thor missile tion weapons system
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