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... period of intensive testing." ''(Freelander, Houston Post, 8/22/65)'' The first stage of the Titan II booster which orbited Gemini V was recovered intact in the Atlantic about 450 mi. northeast ... , NYT, 8/22/65, 72)'' Media:GT05_PAO.PDF Gemini Titan 5 PAO commentary flight transcript Media:GT05_TEC.PDF Gemini Titan 5 Air to Ground flight transcript Media:GT05_TE2.PDF Gemini Titan 5 Flight data flight transcript PROTON I space station, launched ...

... after 1988 and approved an Air Force decision to buy an improved version of its Titan rocket to supplement the Space Shuttle for military launches starting in 1988 and ending in ... Caspar Weinberger said in the directive that the Air Force had decided to buy 10 Titan 34D7 single-use rockets for $2.09 billion between then and September 1993 from Martin ... bargain rates obsolete Titan II intercontinental ballistic missiles to launch three weather satellites for NOAA see Feb 25 . NASA was disappointed in the Air Force decision to buy the Titans, as it had ...

... U.S. Air Force launched its Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F16 craft aboard a Titan 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, marking the final launch of the ... Weather Satellite Finally Escapes Grasp of Hard Luck,” Spaceflight Now, 14 October 2003; Roger Fillion, “Titan II Rocket Soars into Retirement,” Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), 21 October 2003. September 2003 September ...

... in Project Gemini two-man flights because of poisonous nature of Titan II launch vehicle’s fuel. Poisonous quality of Titan II ’s fuel combination has been “known in a general way for quite ...

... /7/63, A13)'' Titan II ICBM flown 6,500 mi. down AMR with heaviest payload ever to travel that far on a U.S. rocket vehicle. This was first Titan II launch conducted by ...

... at least a year. He attributed the slippage to "some difficulty with the utilization of Titan II " and "some problems" with Gemini spacecraft. "No one can forecast now when we will fly ... earth a year before we will do that." ''(Hines, Wash. Sun. Star, 4/28/63)'' Titan II missile launched for first time from underground silo, in USAF test from Vandenberg AFB . Re ...

... ,6)'' Titan II ICBM launched from Cape Canaveral successfully placed re-entry payload in target area more than 6,500-mi. down Atlantic Missile Range AMR , third Such success for Titan II . This was ...

... Waymond A. Davis and Benjamin Funk of AFSC for solving "pogo-stick action" in the Titan II booster for Project Gemini . The sharp surging accelerations during early stages of flight were noted ... redesigned the fuel distribution system to include "surge chambers." In the two test-flights of Titan II 's incorpo­rating the modification, the booster met NASA-USAF requirements for manned space flight ...

... Defense announced that the last of the Titan II ICBM's had become operational, giving the U.S. 534 ICBM's ready to fire. Titan II's can be fired in less than one ...

... the Ballistic Missile Division (BMD), Norton AFB, Calif., was the turnover of six squadrons of Titan II missiles to the using command in 1963. The first squadron was delivered on June 13 ... turned over on December 30, 1963, at Little Rock AFB, Ark. The turnover completed the Titan II program and gave the nation an inventory of 54 of the powerful weapons. ''(AFSC Release ...

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