U.S. Air Force Atlas-D ICBM

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $14.95

Stock #:1101613
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
Publisher: Dexter Supreme
A Mavis Pudding Picturecard
Size: 4.25" x 6" (11 x 15.25 cm)
Publisher's Series #: 70264-C
Additional Details:
Atlas-D: the first U.S. Air Force intercontinental ballistic (ICBM). Fueled with liquid oxygen and kerosene, it had a range of 5,000 miles. A modified version of the Atlas-D was used to launch the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, around the Earth in 1962. National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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