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Atlas Vega
Part of Atlas Family
Atlas Vega Credit: NASA
American orbital launch vehicle. 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 reconnaissance satellite program. Atlas-Vega was accordingly cancelled.
Status: Development ended 1959.
Family: orbital launch vehicle.
Country: USA.
Spacecraft: Gemini,
Lunar Orbiter.
Agency: Convair.
During 1958 - .
LV Family: Atlas.
Launch Vehicle: Atlas Vega.
- NASA sketches two-crew Mercury follow-on spacecraft - .
Nation: USA.
Related Persons: Johnson, Caldwell.
Program: Gemini.
Spacecraft Bus: Gemini.
Spacecraft: Gemini.
In 1958 H. Kurt Strass and Caldwell C. Johnson of NASA's Space Task Group at Langley Field, Virginia.sketched a spacecraft design concept for a two-man orbiting laboratory to be launched by an Atlas-Vega booster. This was one of the earliest sketches of a two-crew Mercury follow-on. The Vega stage was dropped in favour of the Agena a year later, and a similar one-crew Mercury-Agena space station was proposed by McDonnell some years later.
1959 May 9 - .
LV Family: Atlas.
Launch Vehicle: Atlas Vega.
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