atlas_ii | countryorigin | united_states <sep> atlas ii was a member of the atlas family of launch vehicles, which evolved from the successful atlas missile program of the 1950s the atlas ii was a direct evolution of the atlas i, featuring longer first stage tanks, higher-performing engines, and the option for strap-on solid rocket boosters it was designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit sixty-three launches of the atlas ii, iia and iias models were carried out between 1991 and 2004; all sixty-three launches were successes, making the atlas ii a highly reliable space launch system the atlas line was continued by the atlas iii, used between 2000 and 2005, and the atlas v which is still in use 
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