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astronautix.com Atlas Vega


Family: Atlas. Country: USA. Status: Cancelled 1959.

Atlas-Vega consisted of an Atlas booster with a storable propellant upper stage. It was planned by NASA at its inception for deep space and planetary missions before the Atlas Centaur was available. Work had already begun when NASA discovered that the CIA and the US Air Force had an essentially identical launch vehicle (Atlas-Hustler, later called Atlas-Agena) in development for the highly classified Corona reconnaisance satellite program. Atlas-Vega was accordingly cancelled.


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Atlas Vega Chronology


1959 Jan 27 -
1959 Feb 15 -

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