RICKETY ROCKETEERS
RICKETY ROCKETEERS
CAPE CANAVERAL GENERAL DYNAMICS
RETIREES AND PAST EMPLOYEES
INTRODUCTION
"Rickety Rocketeers" is the name of our bi-monthly newsletter, but it seems like a good name for our web page, too. The group meets for breakfast on the last Thursday of every other month (odd numbered months)at the Ramada Inn on Friday Road in Cocoa, Florida, to talk over old times and keep up with other members current status. We have over 300 members on our mailing list and approximately 80 to 100 people attend the breakfasts. Our members have worked on the Atlas launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral from its first launch in 1957 as an intercontinental ballistic missile all the way to its current configuration as a commercial launch vehicle with the liquid hydrogen fueled Centaur as its second stage. They include mechanics, instrumentation and electrical technicians, engineers, quality control, material, administrative and clerical workers. For further information, contact Joe Kadlec
or Dan Schmidt
Launch of a General Dynamics Atlas E Weapon Series vehicle on the left and the launch of a Lockheed Martin Astronautics commercial Atlas 2AS on the right.
Click here for a description of the Atlas 2AS launch vehicle.
ATLAS LAUNCH PICTURES
(CLICK ON THE THUMBNAIL PICTURES BELOW TO VIEW A LARGER VERSION)
Launch of Gordon Cooper aboard Mercury/Atlas
Launch of F-1, the First Atlas/Centaur
Cape Canaveral Lighthouse with Launch of an Atlas II in the Background
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ATLAS LAUNCH VEHICLE
(LINKS TO SITES WITH ATLAS INFORMATION)
Lockheed Martin Astronautics Home Page
The Fallout Shelter - United States Ballistic Missiles
Patrick Air Force Base Home Page
NASA Lewis Research Center Atlas Page
Possible Upgrades to the Existing Atlas Launch Vehicle
OTHER INTERESTING SPACE RELATED SITES
A Brief History of Spaceflight
NASA Home Page
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Galileo Mission to Jupiter
Mars Surveyor 98 Home Page
Jonathan's Space Home Page
Mars Polar Lander 1/24th Scale model
NASA Image Exchange
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