Douglas Thor, Air Force Missile Test Center

Air Force Missile Test Center
Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
U. S. A. F. SM-75 Douglas THOR

The THOR is an Air Force intermediate range missile undergoing test flights over the 5000-mile range of the Air Force Missile Test center. 

ATLAS Missile at the Patrick Air Force Base

Air Force Missile Test Center
Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
U.S.A.F. SM-65 Convair Atlas

The ATLAS is the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile now being tested over the Air Force Missile Test Center's 5000-mile test range.

Missiles on Display, Wallops Flight Facility

Visitors to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallops Main Base near Chincoteague, Virginia are impressed wth the mock-ups of missiles on display.  Shown here are part of the display.  Left - RAM, a three-stage solid-propellant vehicle.  The name stands for Radio Attenuation Measurements.  41 feet long, weighs about 13,000 pounds.  Center - Nike-Asp sounding rocket that rises approximately 102 miles in altitude to discharge vapor trails used in visually determining upper atmosphere characteristics.  Right - Little Joe booster vehicle used to perform check-out tests in NASA's Man-in-space Test Program.  

Project Mercury Launch Vehicles

Project Mercury Launch Vehicles
showing from left,
Little Joe, Redstone and Atlas Missile

Someone 'stamped' on the back:

This card sample Early Missiles 1959 - 72
Unusual set with good collector potential.
Some cards quite scarce
20 different
Thompson's Community Service
1220 Chickasaw
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Titan Missile Test at Cape Canaveral

Air Force Missile Test Center
Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
The Martin Company's Titan launch at Cape Canaveral

Official U.S. Air Force Photo
Curteich postcard

This is postmarked in 1962.

Thor-Able Star Missile, Satellite Launch

Thor-Able Star Missile shown here ready for launching from its pad at Cape Canaveral is primarily a navigational aid satellite.

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Nineteen Thor-Ablestars were launched between 1960 and 1965. 

The Atlas ICBM (Missile) at Blast Off

This picture shows the Atlas ICBM at the moment of blast off from its pad at Cape Canaveral. A similar type of vehicle launched our Astronauts into their orbits around the earth.

This postcard is from the 1960's.

Convair SM-65 - The Atlas Missile

Convair SM-65 "Atlas"

The "Atlas", an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), was designed to lift a nuclear warhead into a ballistic trajectory for impact on an enemy target at least 5,000 miles distance.  Flight tests began in June 1957, with the first full-range flight of more than 6,000 miles taking place on 28 November 1958. It is on display at the Air Force Museum, W-P AFB, Ohio. In addition to its ICBM role, the Atlas has been the "workhorse" of America's space efforts, including Project Mercury, the placing of astronauts into orbit around the earth.

Photo by Joseph F. Morsello

Atlas - Able V Launching

The launch of an Atlas-Able V.  This series of launch vehicles designated Atlas is the workhorse of the space age.  It is the first extensively tested ICBM and the first missile to be launched into orbit.

Photo by U.S.A.F. (United States Air Force)

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ICBM - Intercontinental ballistic missile

Kennedy Space Center, Missile Row

John F. Kennedy Space Center
N.A.S.A.
Overall Aerial View of Missile Row Looking North
Launch site of American Astronauts.

This is postmarked in 1972 with an Eisenhower 6 cent stamp and a special NASA postmark featuring a rocket.