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... :00 am. EST, followed 100 min. later by launch of GEMINI VIII by two-stage Titan II booster with Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong , command pilot, and David R. Scott , pilot. Primary objectives ... . Doc., 3/21/66, 400)’’ Media:GT08_PAO.PDF Gemini Titan 8 Commentary flight transcript Media:GT08_TEC.PDF Gemini Titan 8 Composite flight transcript COSMOS CX, launched Feb. 22 with dogs ...

... the proposal were accepted, a Titan III-C rocket equipped with two upper stages called "transtages" would place one of the transtages in orbit. A Titan II would send the Gemini craft after ... lunar voyage. The feasibility was being studied by NASA; the Martin Co. , systems manager for Titan III-C ; and Aerojet-General , which builds the transtage, "We are always studying possible future ...

... AFB, N.Y., would take part in the tracking and experimentation with NASA'S Echo II passive communications satellite scheduled for launching shortly. A 60-ft.-diameter steerable parabolic antenna had ... . ''(Hudson, NYT, 11/15/63, 57)'' USAF launched a Titan II ICBM from an underground silo at Vandenberg AFB , Calif. Test, sixth Titan II launch from Vandenberg, was to check operation of the total ...

... successful because Nike-Apache reached only 56.1-mi. altitude. ''(NASA Rpt. SRL)'' USAF launched Titan II rocket from Atlantic Missile Range AMR on successful 5,000-mi. flight to test its ... to function both as an ICBM and as booster for Project Gemini manned spacecraft. The Titan II carried Gemini malfunction detection system and damping device to counteract vibrations. ''(M&R, 1/20 ...

... vapor would be a propitious environment for life. Radiotelescopes on earth and on the MARINER II space probe, which had passed within 21,000 mi. of Venus in December 1962, indicated ... highly successful Demonstration and Shakedown Operations ''(DASO)'' series of test firings of the Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile. Five Titan IIs had been successfully launched from Vandenberg AFB by Strategic Air Command ''(SAC)'' crews ...

... with two-stage Titan II booster from the Eastern Test Range and began the four-day space flight of Astronauts James A. McDivitt (Maj. USAF) and Edward H. White , II (Maj., USAF ) , who ... IV to be maneuvered within 25 ft. of the burned out second stage of the TITAN II booster rocket and for White to approach and possibly touch it during his extravehicular mission ...

NASA announced that Mercury Mark II spacecraft would be named "Gemini," after the third constellation of the zodiac featuring the twin ... technique, would be 50% larger than the Mercury capsule, and launched into orbit by a Titan II missile Titan II booster. Mercury capsule installed on top of Atlas booster preparatory for MA-6 manned ...

... two firms would study adapting Titan hardware and systems to the boost module. They had been building Titans for years; the U.S. Air Force had used Titan II in the mid-1960s to ... a contract for $782,500, would work on modification of the Titan III stage 1 engine. A modified version of Titan had launched communications satellites and other Earth orbiters as well as ...

... I , still orbiting the earth, and provide evaluation of improvements in the new comsat. RELAY II completed its first communications test during its first orbit, receiving radio signals and TV test pattern from Mojave, Calif., ground station and beaming them back to earth. RELAY II was initially in excellent mutual visibility position between North America and Europe for TV transmission ... . RELAY II was 22nd straight launch success of Thor-Delta launch vehicle. ''(GSFC Historian; Goddard News, 1/27/64, 1; AP, NYT, 1/22/64, 17)'' Both stages of first Titan II launch ...

... Post, 2/16/64)'' Question of how U.S. would use or dispose of 54 Titan I launch silos was raised in Christian Science Monitor. $1.5 billion had been spent ... the silos. First Titan I site became operational in April 1962. Now that Titan II had become operational augmented by Minuteman missiles, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara had declared Titan I would be ...

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