To casual kibitzers at Cape Canaveral, the Polaris missile that took off from a dry ... A revolutionary new control system guided its second stage. Standard weapon of U.S. nuclear submarines ...

She did the calculations, which the rest of the team checked, for the first Polaris ... Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division. It’s to provide the brains of the fire control system, which ...

On Aug. 29, the cable television station A&E delivered a 31-foot-long, 21,500-pound Polaris missile to the facility to be refurbished for use in an upcoming production. “I have a customer who ...

More than half a century ago this week, the United States conducted its only farm-to-table nuclear missile test. The test, code-named "Frigate Bird," involved the launch of a Polaris missile from ...

The seagoing missile laboratory, fitted with exact duplicates of launching tubes aboard the Navy’s two Polaris submarines ... guidance and fire-control equinment was a success.

Stand down, the Lawrence Missile Crisis is over ... decline an offer from the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center to donate the Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile that has long been ...

The Prime Minister was told that the anti-ballistic missile system planned by the Russians in 1973 would make it all but impossible for the small, submarine-launched Polaris force to take out ...