Missile, Atlas, Airframe Section
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Convair
- Summary
- This is part of an Atlas missile or rocket airframe that survived reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. It is not known what exact vehicle it came from or when or where it impacted. The Atlas was America's first intercontinental-range ballistic missile, deployed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was then modified by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to launch the Project Mercury manned capsules into Earth orbit during 1961-1962. Beginning in the early 1960s, Atlas first stages were also mated with a variety of upper stages to launch numerous civilian and military payloads into space. Convair made the Atlas and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory transferred this fragment to NASM in 1971.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
- Inventory Number
- A19730741000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- CRAFT-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- HAZ MAT: Cadmium
- White Metal Foil
- Fiberglass
- Aluminum Alloy
- Ferrous Alloy
- Unidentified White Material
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 198.1 × 110.5 × 46.4cm, 50.3kg (6 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 7 1/2 in. × 1 ft. 6 1/4 in., 111lb.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19730741000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9ec56539c-0d92-4510-aac9-7c81a5e1bd0f
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