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The Air Force Discoverer is shown as workmen
make final adjustments on a high lift cherry
picker - a small type of truck devised especially
for missile support activities. This is the same
type equipment used by the astronaut technicians
in checking the Mercury capsule just prior to
launch. The trucks in the foreground are used
to store liquid oxygen. When liquid oxygen is
mixed with rocket propellant or kerosene and
ignited, it gives the Thor booster 165,000 pounds
of thrust. -
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