Space Pioneer, Col. Francis J. Hale said it best…”When a group of young, talented people with a few good and enlightened leaders are given a task and allowed to run with it, amazing things can happen. ”
A German American rocket physicist and astronautics engineer, Wernher von Braun, and his team of German scientists and engineers provided the initial nucleus of the ballistic missile program.
‘In it to win it’, the Air Force launched a study in 1951 toward the development of a two-stage ballistic missile with a minimum range of 5,500 nautical miles. The study marked the beginning of the Atlas Missile Program.
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