The imminent space weapon system and space exploration programs necessitate the development of rocket-powered vehicles with capabilities greatly exceeding those of vehicles now available. Pending development of much larger vehicle structures and power plants, a wide variety of missions can be performed by clustering existing vehicles and assembling them into a larger multistage vehicle with 1 to 1.5 million pounds of thrust. This study was made to evaluate the various configurations which could be assembled using clustered Atlas missiles as the booster. For the configurations which appeared most promising, a performance analysis was completed. (Author)


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