The
book is written by Chuck Walker, a participant in the Atlas
program starting in 1953 with the prime contractor, Convair-Astronautics.
Mr. Walker began his career with Convair as a test engineer
for Atlas, later moving to the Test Planning Group and then
became manager of Program Control for Atlas. In his role of
establishing the schedules of all work done at Convair-Astronautics,
Mr. Walker came to know personally many of the people who
were responsible for running the Atlas program. It was these
people that Mr. Walker approached to tell the story of the
Atlas program in their own words.