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Old 08-September-2005, 03:07 PM
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Default Book Review: Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon

SUMMARY: Warfare has been the driving force for many technological advances. The Atlas booster, one of rocketry's stars, arose from such a conflict and now continues a stellar performance in launching military and peace oriented payloads. In the book Atlas The Ultimate Weapon Chuck Walker, together with Joel Powell, present a detailed history of the Atlas development program together with the views of the people who advanced this very successful rocket technology.

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I LOVE that book. It is even better than the recent SATURN book.
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