Atlas-Centaur Rocket Is Developed
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- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Science, Technology, Inventions, Aviation, Space Exploration
- Subcategories: Engineering, Engineers, Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Ohio
- Date: 1962
Article abstract: The Atlas rocket was the first booster rocket with a cryogenic upper stage, the Centaur rocket, which used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellants.
Getting into Space
The Atlas-Centaur rocket is a two-stage launch vehicle. Originally, the Atlas rocket was a long-range ballistic missile that was developed by the United States Air Force after World War II. It used conventional rocket propellants: kerosene and liquid oxygen. (In order to support the process of combustion, the process in which energy is released from a fuel, a...
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