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The Last Atlas 2 Rocket Launch

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 31, 2004 @05:32PM from the it's-all-x-prize-from-here-on-out dept.

Fiz Ocelot writes "Reuters reports that the last Atlas 2 rocket was launched on Tuesday. The rocket was the last to launch the old-fashioned way. For this launch, the 120-member team was inside a blockhouse 1,400 feet from the launch pad. It was also the end of an era dating back to the 1950s, when most rockets, including early manned flights, were launched from concrete blockhouses adjacent to the pads."

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Re:Not really rocket science? by bored_geek · 2004-09-01 02:05 · Score: 3, Insightful

What makes rocket science is not the physics or the calculus, any motivated student can do that and many have. What makes rocket science is getting every minute detail right.
60 successful launches in a row, over 500 launches for the series, that's rocket science!