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Family: Missile. Country: USA. Status: Hardware.
US ICBM.
SpecificationsDevelopment Cost $: 2,095.30 million. in 1960 average dollars. Total Development Built: 125. Total Production Built: 800. Flyaway Unit Cost $: 1.32 million. in 1964 unit dollars.
Minuteman 1A Chronology
1959 Sep 15 -
1960 May 6 -
1961 Aug 30 - FAILURE: Failure.
- Minuteman 1A test launch.
Silo launch
1961 Nov 17 -
1962 Jun 29 -
Bibliography:- 17 - Emme, Eugene M, Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space 1915-1960, NASA, 1961. HTML when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html
- 39 - Gunston, Bill,, Rockets and Missiles, Salamander, London, 1979.
- 281 - Nicholas, Ted G., U.S. Missile Data Book, 1983, Seventh Edition, Data Search Associates, Fountain Valley, California, 1982..
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