Atlas D | FIRE 2
Launch Successful
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Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
May 22, 1965, 9:55 p.m. - May 22, 1965, 9:55 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
May 22, 1965, 9:55 p.m. - May 22, 1965, 9:55 p.m.
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Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft. In 1953 it was purchased by General Dynamics, and operated as their Convair Division for most of its corporate history.
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