File:First Mercury-Atlas Attempted Launch - GPN-2003-00039.jpg

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English: An Atlas vehicle is shown as it is raised into its launchgantry. This Atlas attempted to launch a Mercury spacecraft (without any astronauts aboard) into orbital flight. The launch vehicle developed 360,000 pounds of thrust and burned RP-1, a kerosene-like fuel, and liquid oxygen. It was about 60 feet in length and 10 feet in diameter at the tank section. This was thefirst attempt by NASA to put a Mercury spacecraft into Earthorbit. Unfortunately, this Atlas exploded at launch. Atlas wasdesigned to launch payloads into low Earth orbit, geosynchronoustransfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. NASA first launchedAtlas as a space launch vehicle in 1958. Project SCORE, thefirst communications satellite that transmitted President Eisenhower's pre-recorded Christmas speech around the world, waslaunched on an Atlas. For all three robotic lunar exploration programs, Atlas was used. Atlas/ Centaur vehicles launchedMariner and Pioneer planetary probes. The current operationalAtlas II family has a 100% mission success rating. For more information about Atlas, please see Chapter 2 in Roger Launiusand Dennis Jenkins' book To Reach the High Frontier published byThe University Press of Kentucky in 2002.
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