The Navaho Missile Project
James N. Gibson - The Navaho Missile Project
Schiffer Publishing | 1996 | ISBN: 0764300482 | English | 98 pages | PDF | 160.33 MB
Schiffer Publishing | 1996 | ISBN: 0764300482 | English | 98 pages | PDF | 160.33 MB
The Navaho program is the least known, yet the most important of the United States early missile programs. In rocket technology alone the Navaho made possible the Thor, Jupiter and Redstone missiles. It also allowed the construction of the Atlas ICBM's engines, and in the years to come this engine technology would power the Apollo moon rocket, and our present-day Space Shuttle. The Navaho project achieved major advances in every discipline of engineering and electronics. The program also gave us the airborne digital computer, modular electronic circuitry, and the all inhertial navigation system. The development of modular circuitry alone revolutionized the electronics industry, improving the reliability and repairability of countless electronic devices.