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Note: This is the launch of Atlas 4B, not Ranger 8.

The missile in this image is Atlas 34D (58-2205) the first operational missile shipped to at FE Warren AFB, WY's on the 564th SMS LSB A-3. Atlas 39D (58-2210) was another operational ICBM that was delivered to FE Warren AFB on 10-Feb-60 and launched from Vandenberg AFB, CA's' 576th SMS LSB B-2 on 25-Jan-63 in "Operation Big Sue".

I believe this is a display model of a proposed lifting body and reusable Atlas booster as mentioned below. I've added it to a gallery with other pictures of the same model. "During 1957 Convair began participating in the Air Force SR-89774 study of reusable space boosters that lasted through 1965. To allow the reuse, a 51-foot span swept wing complete with end-plate vertical stabilizers and four General Electric CL-610 [sic*] turbojet engines was grafted onto the Atlas booster." To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles, edited by Roger D. Launius and Dennis R. Jenkins. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. *The CJ-610 is probably what's meant, non-afterburning civilian version of the J85 turbojet.