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PROGRAM 5 JUNE 1963
Arrival at White Sands Missile Range Headquarters Area from
Holloman Air Force Base
Travel to Launch Site No. 1
Introduction to exercises by Major General J. Frederick Thor lin,
Commanding General of White Sands Missile Range
Display and firing of HONEST JOHN ballistic rocket
SERGEANT artillery ballistic missile assembly
Helicopter deployment and firing of LITTLE JOHN artillery rocket
SERGEANT firing
Launcher loading and firing of HAWK anti-aircraft missile
Travel to Launch Site No. 2
Display and firing of NIKE HERCULES anti-aircraft missile
PERSHING ballistic missile system demonstration
Display and firing of TALOS air defense missile
Display and firing of NIKE ZEUS anti-missile missile
Presentation of HONEST JOHN, LITTLE JOHN, SERGEANT,
HAWK and PERSHING firing and handling crews.
Travel to NIKE ZEUS Complex
Classified ZEUS briefing for Presidential party - - unclassified
briefing for others
Presentation of ZEUS, TALOS, and HERCULES firing personnel
Travel to ZEUS complex airstrip
Departure for El Paso International Airport
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CONTENTS PAGE
PROGRA.M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
WEAPONS SYSTEMS
Honest John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Little John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Hawk .. 4
Sergeant
Pershing
Talos ..
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Nike Hercules ............................... .
Nike Zeus ................................. .
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BIOG-RA.PHIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RA.NGE . . . . . . 8
SOUTHWESTERN MILITARY COMPLEX
Fort Bliss ................................... 10
Biggs Air Force Base ......................... 11
William Beaumont General Hospital .... 11
Holloman Air Force Base ........ 11
RA.NGE OPERA. TIONS . . . . . . . . . . 12
RA.NGE USERS
Army Missile Test & Evaluation Directorate . 14
Army Electronics R & D Activity ...... 14
Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility ...... 15
Air Force Missile Development Center ...... 15
NASA and Advance Research Projects Agency .. 15
NASA and the Space Age at WSMR ...... 16
PRESS FACILITIES ................ 17
GLOSSARY ...................................... 19
COVER PHOTO: A Sergeant Missile streaks skyward
from White Sands Missile Range [U.S. Army Photo]
WEAPONS SYSTEMS
HONEST JOHN
The Honest John is a U.S. Army
ballistic rocket. Used as a long-
range artillery weapon, it measures
2 7 feet in length and 3 0 inches in di-
ameter. This solid-fuel rocket is
launched from a 30-foot rail,mount-
ed on a standard 5 -ton truck. It has
a range in excess of 12 miles and
can carry a conventional or nuclear warhead. High mobility,
reliability, and simplicity of operation are major ad-
vantages of this operational free-flight rocket. It was developed
by the Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal. The Rad -
ford Ordnance Plant loads and assembles the rocket motor while
metal parts are procured from a variety of commercial sources.
Douglas Aircraft Company and Emerson Electric Company are
prime contractors
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LITTLE JOHN
The Little John is the Army
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tem. This 318-mm surface-to-surface rocket is used as medi-
um or long-range artillery. It is 14 1/2 feet in length and 12 1/2
inches in diameter. It is a solid-fuel rocket launched from a
helicopter-transportable artillery type launcher. It can carry a
conventional or nuclear warhead. This lightweight system has
a range in excess of 10 miles and is easily airlifted, thus pro-
viding extremely high mobility.
It was developed by the Army
Missile Command at Redstone
Arsenal. Contractors
Consolidated Western
are
Ste e 1,
Emerson Electric Manufactur-
ing Company, and Hercules
Powder Company.
HAWK
The Hawk is a surface-to-air mis-
sile with a "homing all the way to
kill" guidance system. It comple-
ments the Nike Hercules by seeking
out and destroying low altitude air-
craft or air -breathing guided missiles.
It is 16.8 feet in length and 14 inches in
diameter with a solid propellant dual-stage propulsion system.
Armed with a conventional warhead, this high rate of fire system
can be airlifted by helicopter. Prime contractor for this opera-
tional missile is Raytheon, with the propulsion system manufac-
tured by Aerojet General. The Hawk will be fired at a QF-80
drone fighter.
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SERGEANT
The Sergeant is a rugged surface-to-surface field artillery
ballistic missile with a range of from 25 to 75 nautical miles. It
is 34 1/2 feet in length and 31 inches
in diameter, with a single-stage,
solid-propellant motor and an iner-
tial guidance system. The Sergeant
is 100 percent ground mobile and
air transportable, and can be fitted
with a conventional or nuclear war-
head. This operational missile is
simple and reliable, yet completely
immune to all known countermeas -
ures. The system was developed
by Jet Propulsion Laboratories with
the Sperry Utah Company as prime
contractor and Thiokol Chemical
Corp. making the rocket motor .
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PERSHING
The Pershing is a surface -to-
surface ballistic missile with a
range of 100 to 400 nautical miles.
It measures 35 feet in length
and 40 inches in diameter with
a two - stage, solid - propellant
motor and an inertial guidance sys-
tern . The missile is designed to
deliver a nuclear "Sunday Punch"
under any condition of weather or
terrain. It is now in production,
with the Martin Company, Orlando
Division, as prime contractor.
Both missile stages are produced
by the Thiokol Chemical Corporation. The guidance system,
which is immune to all known countermeasures, was developed by
the Army Missile Command laboratory in conjunction with the
Martin and Bendix Companies. Because of its long range, the
Pershing will be demonstrated but not fired at WSMR today.
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TALOS
The Talos is aU .S. Navy surface-to-air missile which is also
capable of surface-to-surface employment against ship or shore
targets. It has a liquid ram-jet motor with a solid-propellant
booster. It is guided by a semi-active homing system and can
carry a conventional or nuclear warhead. The system is present-
ly employed on guided missile cruisers. The missile is 30 feet in
length and 30 inches in diameter and
has been operational since 1959.
Prime contractor for the missile is
the Bendix Corporation. The Sperry
Gyroscope Company is the weapons
control system contractor. Allega-
ny Ballistic Laboratory developed
the solid-propellant booster. The
Talos will be fired at a QF-80 drone
fighter.
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NIKE HERCULES
The Nike HercJ.].les is the United
States' primary high altitude air defense
weapon in operational status. It has a
range of over 75 nautical miles and has
destroyed supersonic targets 20 miles
in the air. It has a solid-propellant,
two-stage motor and a command guid-
ance system. The missile is 27 feet in
length ( 41 with booster) and 311/2 inches
in diameter. It can carry either a con-
ventional or nuclear warhead. The system became operational in
1958 and is now deployed in key areas throughout the U.S. and
overseas. This high-performance intercept missile is being con-
tinually modified to meet new threats and incorporate new ad-
vances, and is capable of operating despite electronic counter-
measures. The Western Electric Company is prime contractor.
This weapon will be fired at another Hercules missile.
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NIKE ZEUS
The Nike Zeus is an anti-missile missile designed for defense
against attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles. It is hyper-
sonic with a three-stage, solid-propellant
motor and a command guidance system.
It is the only anti-ICBM missile system
under advanced development in the Free
World. Armed with a nuclear warhead,
the missile measures 48.3 feet in length
and 36 inches in diameter and can develop
nearly 500,000 pounds of thrust. It will
operate in an environment of electronic
countermeasures and has a rapid-fire
capability. Prime contractor of this
missile is the Western Electric Company.
The Thiokol Chemical Company developed
the propulsion system and Douglas Air-
craft Corporation developed the frame
and launching equipment.
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LT. GEN. FRANK S. BESSON, JR. , USA
With his appointment as Commanding Gen-
of the new Army Materiel Command, 8 May
1962, General Besson continues a 30-year career
in the forefront of logistics innovation in war and
peace. Graduating from West Point in 1932, he
served in the Middle East and the Pacific to be-
come the youngest general officer in the Army Ground Forces at
the close of WW II. After five years service in Washington, dur-
ing which he pioneered new concepts in integrated transportation
and communications systems, he spent four years with SHAPE for-
mulating plans and programs for the 15 -nationNA TO alliance. He
became Army Chief of Transportation in 1958.
MAJ. GEN. J. FREDERICK THORLIN, USA
Corning to WSMR from the Army Tank-Auto-
motive Center in Detroit in 1962, Gen. Thor lin has
served as an ordnance and artillery officer since
his graduation from West Point in 1933 . Awarded
the Navy Bronze Star and Navy Gold Medal in WW
II, Gen . Thorlin helped plan operations for the
Marianas, Iwo Jima, Palau, Leyte and Okinawa
campaigns. Awarded Master's Degree in engi-
neering from MIT in 1948. Graduate of top Army
colleges as well as the Naval War College.
COLONEL RALPHS. GARMAN, USAF
The Commander of the Air Force Missile De-
velopment Center at Holloman AFB has been in the
aircraft and guided missile research and develop-
ment field since 1944. In 1942 he went overseas and
saw combat duty in England and North Africa, ad-
vancing from fighter pilot to group commander.
Col. Garman's prior assignment was deputy com-
mander at AFMDC. He also serves as Air Force
Deputy to the Commanding General, WSMR.
COMMANDER JAMES D. GULP, USN
Assigned as Test Officer at the USNOMTF at
WSMR in April, 1960, CDR. Gulp became the fa-
cility Exec. Officer in 1962 and assumed addition-
al duties as commanding officer of the facility up-
on retirement of Capt. Bennett on June 1, 1963.
Also, he serves as Navy Deputy to Gen. Thorlin.

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MISSILE PARK AND HEADQUARTERS BUILDING
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE
White Sands Missile Range is a National Range which conducts
missile test programs for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Depart-
ment of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration (NASA).
It is one of three national missile ranges. White Sands is
operated by the Army, while the Atlantic Missile Range at Cape
Canaveral is Air Force operated and the Pacific Missile Range at
Point Mugu, California, is Navy operated.
The role of White Sands in missiles and rockets goes back to
World War n days when a "Tiny Tim
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on the range. However, shortly after the end of World War IT,
the firing of missiles began in earnest with an intensive firing
program of captured German V -2 rockets. This marked the be -
ginning of a serious interest in missiles on the part of the United
States Government.
Since then, White Sands Missile Range has been the firing site
of nearly all Army developed missile systems and many Navy and
Air Force missiles. At the present time, it is also the testing
location for several important Dept. of Defense and NASA pro-
grams.
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WSMR is located in south central New Mexico in the Tularosa
Basin. The 40 mile wide and 100 mile long area encompasses
more land than the District of Columbia, Delaware and Rhode Is-
land combined and stretches half the distance from E1 Paso,
Texas, to Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is the largest military
reservation in the United States o
This area is not far from where Dr o
Robert H. Goddard, the father of Ameri-
can missilery, fired his pioneer rockets
and where the world's first nuclear deto-
nation occurred at Trinity Site on July
16,1945. (Thehistoric site, inthe nor-
thern part of the range, is not open to
the public )
Advantages at the all-land missile
range are unlimited visibility, to aid in
missile tracking, the ease of recovering
missiles after flight tests, and the accu-
racy of instruments situated on so 1 i d
land.
WSMR is by far the busiest of the
three national ranges in terms of individ-
ual missile firings. Since 1957, various
agencies using this largest all-land range
have averaged 2, 000 "hot" tests per year
and three times that many other mis-
sions. (Other missions include instru-
mentation checkouts, radar tracking and
target drone flights o) In contrast, the
first full year of operation - 1946 - saw
only 32 completed firings o
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Trinity Site
German V -2 Rocket

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WSMR Technical Area
Fort Bliss
SOUTHWESTERN MILITARY COMPLEX
FORT BLISS - from its beginning in 1848 - has grown from
seven buildings and 1, 265 acres of land until today it encom-
passes 3, 500 buildings and a million acres. The 250 soldiers
who defended the Paso del Norte in 1893 have swelled to nearly
25,000 in 1963.
As early as 1944, air defense planning officers had for seen
that the increasing speeds of modern aircraft would make
tube -type anti-aircraft artillery ineffective. As guided mis-
siles began to replace anti-aircraft guns, there was a need for
the trained missileman. Fort Bliss became the only air-de-
fense guided missile training center in the United States,
training not only soldiers of our own Army, but thousands of
air defense missilemen from allied nations.
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BIGGS AIR FORCE BASE
Biggs Air Force Base is a primary
installation of the Strategic Air Com-
mand whose mission is to maintain a
force instantly ready to conduct strate-
gic air warfare on a global basis. The
state of readiness at Biggs is maintained
through a training program of its crews
based on carefully calculated standards.
Every flying hour must yield a dividend in proficiency. Every
practice bomb run, navigation leg flown, electronic counter-
measure exercise, and re-fueling operation hones the keen edge
of crew skill.
WILLIAM BEAUMONT GENERAL HOSPITAL
One of the Army's largest medical in-
stallations, William Beaumont General Hos-
pital, is located in E1 Paso, Texas, and pro-
vides complete medical and surgical services
for military personnel in the Southwestern
part of the U.S. Established in 1921, it is
also the center for certain specialized teach-
ing and training of interns and resident phy-
sicians. It is one of the few Army hospitals
specializing in thoracic and open heart sur-
gery.
HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE
The Air Force Missile Development
Center {AFMDC) at Holloman AFB is
situated on the central eastern side of
WSMR near Alamogordo, N. M. Few
military installations can boast such a
wide variety of research, developnient
and test activities as AFMDC. These
activities include rocket-sled experi-
ments, flight testing of guided missiles,
balloon launches, bio-medical experiments, and support of Air
Force, Army and Navy Missile projects. This cooperation that
exists between the Air Force units at Holloman and the neighbor-
ing test facilities of both the Army and Navy at WSMR is out-
standing and traditional.
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RANGE OPERATIONS
Like other National Range Comman-
ders, and in accordance with Dept. of
Defense regulations, the Commanding
General of WSMR is responsible for each
and every missile from the tirne it is
delivered to a launch site to the tirne the
test is fully completed. He is responsi-
ble for determining the tirne and place
of test; insuring ground and flight safety;
providing high performance aerial tar-
gets, chaae planes, target drone control
aircraft, etc ; furnishing complete mete-
orological data; obtaining flight trajec-
tory and event data; recovering the mis-
sile, or portions of it, for post mortem
examination; 'reducing' - (putting into
readable form) - all data and rendering
a complete written report; provi .dlng
overall base logistic support to the pro-
gram, etc. He accomplishes this through
the various administrative and technical
offices that make up White Sands.
A complex of high precision instruments - optical, radar, and
electronic - gather voluminous and precise data that make each
test valid and valuable. Skilled technicians, using electronic
computers, reduce the data so that the missile designer under-
stands exactly how his missile performed. Missile recovery,
easy and quick on this all-land range, enables scientists to
examine missile components after the flight tests.
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Instrument Sites
Data collecting facilities include over 640 tracking instru-
ments and 1,078 survey sites (surveyed to an accuracy of 1
part of 300,000! ). Over these surveyed sites are placed op-
tical and electronic instrumentation equipment. Such equip-
ment includes long range cameras, powerful telescopes,
radar, telemetry, etc.
Data gathering stations and impact areas are connected by
1,100 miles of roads, 60, 000 miles of wire and cable, and 240
microwave and radio channels.
A precise timing system, timed within one one-thousandth .
of a second, links all data gathering and missile firing points
on the range. It provides a constant and accurate reference
by which data from any range instrument can be compared in-
stant by instant with data from any other range instrument.
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RANGE USERS
ARMY MISSILE TEST AND EVALUATION DIRECTORATE
The Army Missile Test and Evaluation Directorate (AMTED) is
the organization at White Sands which tests Army missiles. Be -
sides full scale flight tests, each missile is subjected to many other
tests to make sure that it is capable of operating anywhere, any-
time and under any battlefield environment. Army missile tests
include shake, vibration and drop tests which simulate the roughest
treatment the missile will get while being handled in combat.
Army missiles are also bombarded with both nuclear radiation and
with radiation associated with communication, radar and jamming
equipment to make sure that they will function properly under all
conditions to be found on the future battlefield. Climatic tests, both
in the field and in the labs, testthemissile's capability to withstand
extremes of heat, cold, rain, snow, dust,fog, salt sprayandthe
humid jungle climate. To make doubly sure', the entire system -
missile and associated equipment - is tested under field conditions
from the arctic to the jungle. Such tests and many more confirm
the capability of the missile to be fired any time, any place, any
war.
ARMY ELECTRONICS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY
The Army Electronics R & D Activity (ERDA) at WSMR backs
up missile and rocket testing by providing meteorological and spe-
cial electronic data and support. Meteorological data -wind speed
and direction, temperature, pressure, humidity, etc. -is regularly
obtained, at all altitudes up to 50 miles, by using inexpensive
high altitude sounding rockets. In the electronics field, ERDA,
through research and development, provides range instrumentation
equipment and techniques which measure and keep track of the
missiles in time and space. ERDA also relentlessly tries to jam
the electronic gear in each missile to make sure the missile can
withstand enemy jamming signals. Another mission of ERDA is to
devise electronic jammers for use against enemy missiles.
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NAVAL ORDNANCE MISSILE TEST
FACILITY (NOMTF)
The Naval Ordnance Missile Test
Facility is the desert-locked arm of the
Navy's missile development agency.
Navy missiles are launched from the
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Desert Ship.
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A major share of the
Navy s present activity concerns the
Talos air defense missile, a lethal anti-
aircraft weapon carried by the fleet's newest missile ships. Re-
search is underway on the Typhon, an even more powerful ship-
to-air defensive system. Another program is concerned with
high altitude research with the Aerobee rocket which is launched
by the Navy for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the U.S
Air Force, NASA and other government agencies.
AIR FORCE MISSILE DEVELOPMENT
CENTER (AFMDC)
The Air Force Missile Development
Center at Holloman Air Force Base on
the east side of the Range tests such sys-
tems as Firebee, Sidewinder, Falcon,
Genie, Mace, Matador and Hound Dog.
It also provides the USAF and other gov-
ernment agencies standardized tests of
guidance mechanisms, control systems,
and other components. Col. John Stapp
rocketed to 632 miles per hour on a 3,500 foottrackthat has since
been extended to what is now the famed 7 mile long high speed
test track. The 6571st Aeromedical Research Laboratory at Hol-
loman conducted the NASA Mercury chimpanzee training program
which contributed to the successful man-into-space flights.
The NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRAT.ION
(NASA) and ADVANCE RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (ARPA)
are also users of the range. When Mercury orbital flights be-
came a reality, WSMR instruments con-
tributed vital data to each flight. Portions
of the step into space following Mercury-
Project Apollo (NASA'S project to land a
man on the moon in the decade) - also in-
clude tests of the Apollo lunar vehicle's
service module and abort escape systems
at White Sands
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Lunar Excursion Module
NASA AND THE SPACE AGE AT WSM R
Scheduled to begin soon are Apollo "off-the -pad" and flight
abort tests which will be conducted at Army Launch Area I# 3.
These tests will check the device that lifts Apollo astronauts
clear of their launch vehicle in the event of malfunction.
A NASA propulsion test facility is under construction on the
west side of the Organ Mountains. Here the service module pro-
pulsion system and the lunar excursion module propulsion sys-
tems will be developed and tested. The service module power
plant which will put the Apollo craft into lunar orbit is being de-
veloped by North American Aviation, Inc. The lunar excursion
module, under development by Grumman Aircraft, is the Apollo
craft which will land on the moon and return to lunar orbit.
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PRESS FACILITIES
MISSILE
SOUND
EFFECTS
WIREPHOTO
TRANSMISSION
TELETYPE
AND
TELEPHONE
COURIER
SERVICE
PHOTO-
GRAPHER
STANDS
Firing sounds of all systems demonstrated are
available from the Information Office representa-
tive at the press centers. These are quarter-inch
magnetic tapes recorded at 7 1/2 IPS. Most in-
clude the final seconds of countdown.
Wirephoto transmission facilities are available to
the press services. Equipment is located in the
photographic lab at the WSMR Headquarters area.
Marked courier vehicles will be stationed at each
press center and will be dispatched to the labs as
required.
Telephones are available in each press center for
credit card and collect calls. Certain telephones
have been reserved for priority use by Wash-
ington press representatives. All others are a-
vailable on a first-come,first-serve basis. Tele-
type facilities are also available at the main
press site. These are Western Union wires, and
copy will be transmitted on them in the order it
is received by the Information Office representa-
tive behind the teletype counter.
Courier jeeps will be available at each press
center to carry copy to teletype machines .and
photographs for processing by wire service, to
expedite the mission of the press.
Two raised stands, llOV power available, at the
side of Presidential stands, and two roped-off
ground-level areas, no power, at the side-front.
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PRESS FACILITIES
TRANSPORTING An open-bed truck will be available in each area,
HEAVY PHOTO as will personnel, to move cameramen with e-
EQUIPMENT quipment too heavy to load quickly or easily into
PROCESSING
SERVICE
buses -- THIS VEHICLE WILL BE LIMITED TO
PHOTOGRAPHERS WITH HEAVY GEAR.
Still-photo processing and printing service is a-
vailable on request to a representative of the
WSMR Information Office. Distances involved
from area to lab mean a two-hour tizne span from
camera to print. Marked courier vehicles will be
stationed at each press center and will be dis-
patched with film for processing on first-come,
first-serve basis.
ARMY Presidential briefings indoors at Nike Zeus area
PHOTOGRAPHY will be classified. Army Photographers will
provide still and motion coverage. Still photos
will be available at the Zeus press center prior
to departure of the President. Motion picture
coverage (16 mm b&w only) will be mailed the
following day to news representatives requesting
it.
PRE-PRINTED Still and motion picture coverage of missile aye-
MATERIAL terns demonstrated is available from the WSMR
Information Office representative at each press
center. Black and white stills are available in
wire service sizes and in 8 x 10. Black and white
16 mm motion picture material, without sound, is
available in liznited quantities.
FOR ANY OTHER INFORMATION FACILITIES
CONTACT THE INFORMATION OFFICE
REPRESENTATIVE AT THE PRESS CENTERS
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GLOSSARY
BALLISTIC MISSILE -- One which does not utilize aerodynamic
lift surfaces. Thus, its trajectory is determined by its velocity
and heading at termination of rocket motor thrust.
COMMAND GUIDANCE SYSTEM - - A system which utilizes
ground based equipment to compute steering commands for mis-
siles during flight to direct the missiles to their targets. Steering
commands are based upon position and velocity of both missile
and target. They are transmitted to the missile by radio and
cause the missile to steer so as to intercept the target .
CONVENTIONAL WARHEAD -- Warheads utilizing high explosive
rather than nuclear components.
FREE-FLIGHT -- The trajectory described by a missile from
firing point to impact point, when controlled only by ballistic for-
ces acting on the missile. Control over the course of a free-
flight missile is obtained by pointing the launcher prior to firing.
INERTIAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM-- A system for guiding the flight
of a missile which is entirely contained within the m i ssile . The
target location is set into the guidance component of the missile
prior to launch. After launch the guidance component steers the
missile on an appropriate trajectory to engage the target .
PROPELLANT -- The combustible material used in rocket motors
to propel missiles. Propellants may be either liquid or solid.
ROCKET --A missile containing its own propellant agent .
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