Atlas The ICBM (1957)

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  @emmettturner9452 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wndRKOF-9TQ&amp;t=355">5:55</a> “our B-52s, and on to the B-58.”<br><br>…and here we still have the B-52 in service in 2022.

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• DE

  @deejayhoneylove · 1 year ago (edited)

  According to this film, nicotine played a major role in the Atlas icbm program. 12 years, and millions of cigarettes, later Americans would walk on the moon.

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• HA

  @halon7476 · 1 year ago

  This documentary is brought to you by Marlboro King Size.

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• ER

  @ericfermin8347 · 4 years ago (edited)

  My dad was a janitor at the Martin plant in Denver. &nbsp;He used to tell me great stories about his role is the design, testing, and manufacture of critical parts of this missile. &nbsp;I followed his great footsteps and today, proudly work in the custodial department in Hawthorne for SpaceX doing the same critical part in the space program that my father did. &nbsp;I hope my son (or daughter) caries on our family&apos;s legacy in the space program.

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  @a-a-ronbrowser1486 · 4 years ago

  Smoking on a pipe while guiding the massive rocket into place… the good ol days

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• QW

  @qwasd0r · 1 year ago

  Anyone who&apos;s slightly interested in this topic needs to read Command And Control by Eric Schlosser. It&apos;s an amazing book, covering &nbsp;the development of nuclear ICBMs.

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• MI

  @mircea888 · 1 year ago (edited)

  The speach clarity is incredible. It seems that today we have lost this important ability of transmitting clear and logical ideas.

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• BL

  @blurglide · 4 years ago

  LOL- the part where they complain it takes a few years to develop an entirely new technology. &nbsp;They were SO fast back then!

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• JA

  @JAGRAFX · 2 years ago (edited)

  I was enployed at Convair Division of General Dynamics in their Launch Vehicle Programs. &nbsp; We pretty much knew that the old &quot;A-4&quot; (political name &quot;V-2) was an alcohol/LOX machine that was limited by design and low engine thrust. &nbsp;Convair began its MX-774 as a conceptual proof-of-concept project but was cancelled in the late 1940&apos;s. &nbsp;When re-energized as the Atlas; the newer machine would have had four booster engines plus the center sustainer. &nbsp;Subsequent nuclear weapon designs in the early 1950&apos;s permitted a much smaller warhead design which resulted in an accordant reduction in design capability with only two booster engines combined with the single sustainer and two small verneer engines for added stability and fine adjustment for targeting. &nbsp;We would visit the ultra-modern new manufacturing facility on Kearny Mesa in San Diego in mid-1958; many of us amazed at the oversll scope of what was to be one of the largest procurements ever attempted by the Air Force. &nbsp;A sense of urgency was present among us all. &nbsp;At some point Gus (Virgil) Grissom was asked to speak to us all on the vehicle final assembly floor. &nbsp;The self-concious Grissom could only blurt out the words: &quot;Do good work.&quot; &nbsp;Those three words from the new astronaut rang through the packed assembly like lightning ⚡ with the audience of workers erupting in chears as well as just plain screaming just hearing the voice of one of the men who would eventually fly on one of our vehicles. &nbsp;What eventually became the annual &quot;Do Good Work&quot; pledge was signed by all employees. &nbsp;Atlas would eventually become a sub-obital &amp; orbital workhorse and by the &apos;70&apos;s an Atlas/Centaur launch vehicle would boost our first spacecraft to Jupiter as part of the Pioneer Project for NASA.

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• BR

  @Brokenrocktail · 1 year ago

  Its hilarious to hear about them complaining about programs taking too long, my god imagine if they saw how long things took today.

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• HI

  @HiSteOfMnd · 4 years ago

  Man I love this type of historical documentary.

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  @marcdonato9322 · 4 years ago

  My mom worked for RCA West Coast Missile and Surface Radar Division in Van Nuys CA in 1959/60. &nbsp;They did a lot of work for the Navy and Air Force back then...

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