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... massive cloud of ice particles several mi. in diameter. From the cloud experiment ( Project Highwater II) scientists hoped to gain data on atmospheric physics. This was third straight test-flight success ... United Technology Corp. for solid-propulsion rocket motors to be strapped to sides of Titan II missile Titan II rocket. in Titan III configuration. He said contract with Martin-Marietta Corp. for airframe assembly and ...

USAF Titan missile Titan I launched from Cape Canaveral carrying Titan II missile Titan II guidance system. October 1961 October Oct 1 1961 1 Oct 2 1961 2 Oct 3 ...

... and two to three times heavier. Its booster rocket was announced to be the USAF Titan missile Titan II, scheduled for flight test early in 1962. One of the major objectives in the ... rendezvous, in which the two-man capsule would be put into orbit by the Titan IImissile Titan II and would attempt to rendezvous with an Agena stage put into orbit by an Atlas ...

... highest national priority for the Apollo Program , covering Saturn C-1 , Saturn C-5 , Titan II missile Titan II , and Atlas-Agena launch vehicles, as well as all stages and engines connected with the ... a NATO missile crew from Atlantic Missile Range AMR . USAF acquired its first operational Titan I missile Titan I ICBM site, at Lowry ABF, Colo., as AFSC turned control over to SAC ...

... exercise yourself, that way you will be convinced. Put the payload fractions of the Atlas, Titan and Saturn V of a half century ago in a row and then add those of the improved Atlas, Titan, space shuttle and Ares of today. You will find a fraction of a percentage point ... short, it involves the Mark-6 RV for the Titan II. It held the W-53, a 9.2MT warhead. In 1980, a Titan II with a Mark-6/W-53 blew up in ...

... . had notified U.S. that it would participate in space communi­cations experiments using Echo II passive communications satellite which NASA would orbit in the coming week. Soviet officials planned to ... Corp. for Titan II propulsion systems and related spare parts, and $2,578,000 obligation to AC Spark Plug Div. of General Motors for production of gyros and accelerometers for Titan II. ''(DOD Release ...

... of background, I had quite a long and serious interest in aircraft during World War II. I was pretty young, but not so young I didn’t know what was going ... was some different hardware in terms of we now had a different launch vehicle. The Titan II was different. So some things were different, but it seemed like an easy transition in ... rendezvous, if I recall, they attempted a rendezvous of sorts on Gemini IV with their Titan booster and ran into these problems. '''Aldrich:''' Well, those weren’t quite the same problems ...

... unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine) as the oxidizer and fuel; the propellants ignited hypergolically. A series of twelve Titan III-C tests was projected. Most powerful rocket previously launched was NASA's Saturn I ... been rated by American experts at 800,000-900,000 lbs. thrust. The two-stage Titan II that launched GEMINI III and GEMINI IV into orbit produced 430,000 lbs, of thrust ...

... . ''(MSC Release 63-92)'' Titan II exploded after about 50 sec. of flight in USAF launch, Cape Canaveral . Cause of explosion was not yet determined. This was first Titan II explosion in 16 launches ... Release 780-63)'' Nike-Zeus antimissile missile successfully intercepted re­entry target vehicle launched by Titan I ICBM in recent tests, DOD announced. Nike-Zeus was fired and controlled from Army ...

... VI NASA Administrator James E. Webb said: "This is to report to you that the Titan II booster which we expected to use on October 25 to launch GEMINI VI , carrying astronauts ... launching of Gemini VII into a 14-day orbit, and our studies show that the Titan booster which we have especially prepared for Gemini VII is more suitable. This is the ... waited for the Agena malfunction to be found and corrected. If the launching pad, the Titan booster, and GEMINI VI could not be made ready in time to catch the Gemini ...

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