SM-65 Atlas Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile System 1956-1965
Atlas Missile 63D
General Dynamics Missile Serial Number: 58-7058
General Dynamics Manufacturing Number: 63D
Air Force Missile Tail Number: 058
Missile Acceptance Date: 3/28/1960
Missile Delivery Date: 5/3/1960
ICBM Squadron Number: 565th
ICBM Squadron Site Assignment: ?
Missile Destination: F. E. Warren Air Force Base
Missile Mission: Operational ICBM
Missile Launch Date: 9/6/1963
Missile Launch Payload: Operation Cool Water 3
Missile Launch Location: Vandenberg AFB - B-2 Launcher
Missile Launch Outcome: Failure
Notes: The Air Force launch crew MCCC was Lieutenant Parsons. A vernier hydraulic line ruptured at T+110 seconds causing loss of sustainer hydraulics fluid followed by sustainer and vernier engine shutdown.
