Atlas (missile)
family of American missiles and space launch vehicles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atlas was a missile built by the Convair Division of General Dynamics.
It was originally designed as an ICBM in the late 1950s. It launched the Mercury project space capsules and became the foundation for a family of successful space launch vehicles now built by United Launch Alliance. The Atlas rocket family is today used as a launch platform for commercial and military satellites, and other spacecraft.