Atlas , named for the MISC@1 mythology and the contractor 's parent ORGANIZATION@1 , got its start in NUMBER@1 with the award of an ORGANIZATION@2 research contract to ORGANIZATION@3 -LRB- later Convair -RRB- for the study of a NUMBER@2 to NUMBER@3 mi .

Atlas , named for the MISC@1 mythology , got its start in NUMBER@1 with the award of an ORGANIZATION@2 research contract to Convair for the study of a NUMBER@2 to NUMBER@3 mi .
