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    The Atlas LV-3B, Atlas D Mercury Launch Vehicle or Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle, was a human-rated expendable launch system used as part of the United...
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    The Mercury spacecraft, named Friendship 7, was carried to orbit by an Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle lifting off from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral,...
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  • Mercury-Atlas was a subprogram of Project Mercury: 1  that included most of the flights and tests using the Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle. The Atlas was also...
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    failure were caused by the Atlas, it could mean significant delays for that mission, which used a similar Atlas D derived Atlas LV-3B booster. However, analysis...
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    modified Atlas LV-3B was used for the orbital element of Project Mercury, launching four crewed Mercury spacecraft into low Earth orbit. Atlas D launches...
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    The Atlas LV-3B, Atlas D Mercury Launch Vehicle or Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle, was a human-rated expendable launch system used as part of the United...
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    Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10) was a cancelled early crewed space mission, which would have been the last flight in NASA's Mercury program. It was planned as...
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    achieved all its flight objectives. It had demonstrated the ability of the Atlas LV-3B rocket to lift the Mercury capsule into orbit and of the capsule and...
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    No. 16, had been delivered to Cape Canaveral on January 16, 1962. The Atlas LV-3B booster assigned to the mission, No. 113-D, was accepted by NASA at the...
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    [citation needed] Orbital missions required use of the Atlas LV-3B, a man-rated version of the Atlas D which was originally developed as the United States'...
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    Mercury-Atlas 7, launched May 24, 1962, was the fourth crewed flight of Project Mercury. The spacecraft, named Aurora 7, was piloted by astronaut Scott...
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    Mercury-Atlas 1 (MA-1) was the first attempt to launch a Mercury capsule and occurred on July 29, 1960 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was...
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  • Athena II Atlas Atlas B – Retired Atlas D – Retired Atlas-Able – Retired Atlas-Agena – Retired Atlas E/F – Retired Atlas H – Retired Atlas LV-3B – Retired...
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  • Atlas B, Atlas C, Atlas LV-3C, Atlas D, Atlas-Agena, Atlas LV-3B LR105-3 LR105-5 - Atlas LV-3C, Atlas E, Atlas Agena B, Atlas F, Atlas Agena D, Atlas...
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    Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) was an uncrewed test flight of the Mercury program using the Atlas rocket. It launched on February 21, 1961, at 14:10 UTC, from...
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    Initially, Atlas D missiles, redesignated as the LV-3, were used as the first stage. These were later replaced by the standardized Atlas SLV-3, and its...
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    Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida...
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    LR89 (category Atlas (rocket family))
    Atlas B and Atlas C missiles; MA-2: two XLR89-5 booster engines, an LR105-5 sustainer, and two LR101 vernier engines. Used on Atlas D and Atlas LV-3B;...
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    missile Atlas (rocket family) (1959) The Atlas civilian space booster Atlas E/F Atlas G Atlas H Atlas LV-3B Atlas SLV-3 Atlas-Able Atlas-Agena SM-65 Atlas –...
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  • FACT SHEET". spaceline.org. Cliff Lethbridge. Retrieved 8 October 2021. "ATLAS B FACT SHEET". spaceline.org. Cliff Lethbridge. Retrieved 9 October 2021...
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    Mercury-Atlas 3 (MA-3) was an unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched unmanned on April 25, 1961 at 16:15 UTC, from Launch Complex...
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    Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on November 29, 1961, with Enos, a chimpanzee, aboard. The craft orbited...
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    were based on the SM-65D Atlas, including the Atlas SLV-3, which had the RM-81 Agena and Centaur upper stages, the Atlas LV-3B, which launched the final...
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    LR105 (category Atlas (rocket family))
    a liquid-fuel rocket engine that served as the sustainer engine for the Atlas rocket family. Developed by Rocketdyne in 1957 as the S-4, it is called...
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    designated Atlas LV-3B. Atlas Ds used for space launches were custom-built for the needs of the mission they were performing, but when the Atlas was retired...
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    payload capability, the Titan II promised greater reliability than the Atlas LV-3B, which had been selected for Project Mercury, because Titan's hypergolic-fueled...
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    Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011. "Atlas LV-3B". www.astronautix.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016...
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    began at NASA, Slayton was assigned to the development of the Convair Atlas LV-3B.: 98  In 1959, during a centrifuge training course, he underwent an electrocardiogram...
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    a seismometer. The mission was designed to boost towards the Moon by an Atlas/Agena, undergo one mid-course correction, and impact the lunar surface....
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    TAT SLV-2A Agena-B TAT SLV-2A Agena-D Voskhod 11A57 Retirements Atlas LV-3B Atlas LV-3C Centaur-B Scout X-2B Scout X-2M Scout X-3M Crewed flights Orbital...
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