Atlas, NASA's First Rocket in Orbit, Really Liked to Explode
Atlas, NASA's First Rocket in Orbit, Really Liked to Explode
Jul 10, 2012
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December 15th - on this day in 1960, the third and final Atlas-D Able rocket was used to launch NASA's Pioneer P-31 lunar orbiter. The rocket took to the skies from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 12. However, like the two earlier Atlas-D Able missions (the first of which was actually was lost during a pre-launch static fire test), the flight ended in a spectacular failure, when vibration or debris from the Able adapter section ruptured the liquid oxygen tank of Atlas, causing the vessel to expl
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December 15th - on this day in 1960, the third and final Atlas-D Able rocket was used to launch NASA's Pioneer P-31 lunar orbiter. The rocket took to the skies from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 12. However, like the two earlier Atlas-D Able missions (the first of which was actually was lost during a pre-launch static fire test), the flight ended in a spectacular failure, when vibration or debris from the Able adapter section ruptured the liquid oxygen tank of Atlas, causing the vessel to expl
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