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dated August 31, 1958: Launch of new missile

An Atlas inter-continental ballistic missile was launched from the Air Force test centre in Cape Canaveral (Florida) on August 29. Thirty minutes after the launching, officials announced that the test was a complete success – “right down the rifle barrel on the bull’s eye”. They said that the Atlas carried for the first time a unique radio-command guidance system and described the launching as “one of a continuing research and development flight tests of the Atlas weapons system”.

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