Nike (rocket) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-02

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike


00:00:56 1 History
00:05:09 1.1 Nike Ajax
00:10:51 1.2 Nike Hercules
00:15:10 1.3 Nike Zeus
00:17:35 1.4 Nike-X
00:20:52 1.5 Decommissioning
00:22:35 2 Specifications
00:22:45 3 Support vehicles
00:23:50 4 Deployment
00:30:54 5 Nike as sounding rocket
00:31:56 6 Survivors
00:32:06 6.1 Bases
00:34:13 6.2 Missiles
00:39:21 7 See also
00:40:10 8 Sources



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Project Nike (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory", pronounced [nǐːkɛː]) was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for developing the Nike Ajax were re-used for a number of functions, many of which were given the "Nike" name (after Nike, the goddess of victory from Greek mythology).
The missile's first-stage solid rocket booster became the basis for many types of rocket including the Nike Hercules missile and NASA's Nike Smoke rocket, used for upper-atmosphere research.