Atlas Workhorse
Atlas Workhorse
30" x 40" oil (1996)
© ATK Thiokol Propulsion


Four of Thiokol's Castor® IVA solid rocket motors help launch a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS from Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Castor IVA strap-on motors give the Atlas IIAS a 20 percent greater payload capacity than any other Atlas launch vehicle. The Atlas IIAS has successfully placed all of its national and international payloads on orbit.

On August 31, 2004 the last of the original Atlas-Centaur boosters powered by Rocketdyne MA-5A engines launched the secret National Reconnaissance Office NROL-1 spacecraft into orbit. It marked the end of an era in Atlas launch vehicles.









Many of the ATK Thiokol paintings are available as high quality lithographs through ATK Thiokol, MS PUBS, PO Box 707, Brigham City, Utah 84302. While not normally available to the general public, the prints are available to military units, aerospace organizations and industry representatives. Reproduced with permission of ATK Thiokol Propulsion. Unauthorized use of this image is strictly forbidden.


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