Atlas program

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The Atlas program was a series of American expendable launch systems and intercontinental ballistic missiles that played a key role in early U.S. space exploration and satellite launches.

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instanceOf missile program
rocket program
configuration stage-and-a-half design
countryOfOrigin United States
developedBy Convair
General Dynamics
era Cold War
firstFlightDate 1957
firstOperationalRole ICBM
fuel RP-1 kerosene
influenced later U.S. launch vehicle design
laterRole space launch vehicle
launchedAstronaut John Glenn
launchedMission Friendship 7
launchedPayloadType communication satellites
reconnaissance satellites
scientific satellites
weather satellites
launchedSpacecraft Mercury spacecraft
launchSitesUsed Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Vandenberg Air Force Base
notableAchievement placed first American in orbit
notableFeature early backbone of U.S. orbital launch capability
first operational U.S. ICBM
notableVariant Atlas LV-3B
Atlas-Agena
Atlas-Centaur
SM-65 Atlas
operator United States Air Force
oxidizer liquid oxygen
partOf United States ICBM program
United States space program
propellantType liquid-fueled
rocketFamily Atlas
status continued as launch vehicle family
retired as ICBM
successor Atlas II
Atlas III
Atlas V
technologyType liquid-propellant rocket technology
usedFor crewed spaceflight launch
expendable launch system
intercontinental ballistic missile
satellite launch
usedInProgram Project Mercury
linked to: Mercury program
usedUpperStage Agena upper stage
Centaur upper stage

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