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Brochure, "Missile and Space Vehicle Department: A Department of the Defense Electronics Division," circa 1962 - General Electric formed its Missile and Space Vehicle Department in 1955 to research and develop a re-entry vehicle (or nose cone) for the Air Force Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The department later broadened its services to other space-related projects--satellites, probes, and human-crewed space vehicles--and created a Space Technology Center to test aspects of its research.
circa 1962
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Brochure, "Missile and Space Vehicle Department: A Department of the Defense Electronics Division," circa 1962
General Electric formed its Missile and Space Vehicle Department in 1955 to research and develop a re-entry vehicle (or nose cone) for the Air Force Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The department later broadened its services to other space-related projects--satellites, probes, and human-crewed space vehicles--and created a Space Technology Center to test aspects of its research.