330-PSA-254-60 (164493 AC): The nose cone of a U.S. inter-continental ballistic missile is towed toward the Air Force Missile Test Center’s ocean range vessel “Coastal Crusader” after landing in the South Atlantic Ocean near Ascension Island, 5,000 miles from its launching site at Cape Canaveral, Florida.  Aboard the Atlas RVX-2 nose cone, which was launched at 4:35 a.m., October 13, 1960, were three black mice contained in a water and air-tight sealed capsule.  (9/9/2015).
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