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A Titan II GLV | Titan II launch vehicle lifts Gemini 4 into orbit, June 3, 1965. Launched from LC-19 at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida, Gemini 4 was the first flight to be controlled by the new Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, which had to conduct three-shift operations due to the flight's long duration.
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Titan and II
1977 Cessna 404 Titan II
Test launch of an LGM-25C Titan II ICBM from an Missile silo | underground silo at Vandenberg AFB, during the mid 1970s
Schriever followed up his quick development of the two missile systems with the development of the Titan II and Minuteman missile systems shortly thereafter.
Older B-52B, B-52C, B-52E and B-52F aircraft were retired, along with the B-58A, leaving SAC with an offensive force of several hundred B-52D, B-52G, B-52H and FB-111A strike aircraft, augmented by 1, 054 Titan II, Minuteman II and Minuteman III ICBMs.
LGM-25C Titan II | Titan II missile launching from silo.
* LGM-25 Titan II
For example, calculations show that the Titan II first stage, launched on its own, would have a 25-to-1 ratio of fuel to vehicle hardware.
The first stage of the Titan II had the mass ratio required for single-stage-to-orbit capability with a small payload.
The station was the same diameter as a Titan II upper stage, and would be launched with the crew riding atop in a modified Gemini capsule with a hatch cut into the heat shield on the bottom of the capsule.
* Cessna 404 Titan II, a small twin-propeller aircraft
* A limestone carving of the Titan II rocket which launched his Gemini flight is in downtown Mitchell, Indiana.
The LGM-25C Titan II | Titan II Intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) carried a 9 TNT equivalent | Mt W53 warhead, one of the most powerful nuclear weapon s fielded by the United States during the Cold War.
Although they are preferred in space launchers, the difficulties of storing a cryogen like liquid oxygen in a missile that had to be kept launch ready for months or years at a time led to a switch to hypergolic propellants in the US Titan II and in most Soviet ICBMs such as the R-36.
The Titan II, III and IV, with their hypergolic first and second stages, have also been retired.
In 1962, the Strategic Air Command's 390th Strategic Missile Wing ( 390 SMW ) and its 18 Titan II ICBM sites around Tucson were activated.
The 390 SMW was one of only three Titan II missile wings in SAC and represented the heaviest land-based missile and the largest single warhead ever fielded by U. S. strategic deterrent forces.
In 1984, as a result of the first series of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties START I between the United States and the Soviet Union, SAC began to decommission its Titan II missile system.
In October 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced that, as part of the strategic modernization program, Titan II systems were to be retired by 1 October 1987.
Titan and GLV
Like its predecessor the Atlas ICBM, the Titan II GLV a derivative of that missile was used to launch Project Gemini spacecraft and the Titan 23G was used as a space booster to launch satellites.
A Titan II GLV | Gemini-Titan launch vehicle lofts Gemini 8 into orbit, March 16, 1966.
It was launched on a Titan II GLV rocket.
All manned Gemini flights were launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida using the Titan II GLV launch vehicle.
Titan and |
File: Christiaan Huygens-painting. jpeg | Christiaan Huygens ( 1629-1695 ): studied the rings of Saturn and discovered its moon Titan, invented the pendulum clock, studied optics and centrifugal force, theorized that light consists of waves ( Huygens – Fresnel principle ) which became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality.
File: Titan arum Kew 6697. JPG | Titan arum in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
Studies generally looked at platforms launched by the Saturn V, followed up by crews launched on Saturn IB using an Project Apollo | Apollo Command / Service Module, or a Gemini capsule on a Titan II-C, the latter being much less expensive in the case where cargo was not needed.
March 25: Titan ( moon ) | Titan discovered ( image false color ).
Nineteen moons are large enough to be round, and one, Saturn's Titan ( moon ) | Titan, has a substantial atmosphere.
The Titanomachy: A beardless Zeus is depicted launching a thunderbolt against a kneeling Titan at the Gorgon pediment from the Temple of Artemis ( Corfu ) | Temple of Artemis in Corfu as exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu
Image: Huygens probe dsc03686. jpg | Huygens probeFirst Titan lander
Image: Titan multi spectral overlay. jpg | Titan showing surface and atmospheric details
Kimball, Nebraska park missile 3. JPG | Titan I missile in Gotte Park.
Surface of Saturn's moon Titan ( moon ) | Titan as seen by the Huygens probe after landing in 2005
The bright region to the right is Xanadu ( Titan ) | Xanadu Region.
Dione ( moon ) | Dione transits Titan ( moon ) | Titan, as seen by the Cassini – Huygens | Cassini probe ; in the background, little Prometheus ( moon ) | Prometheus is occultation | occulted by the rings of Saturn
Titan and launch
The missiles of the day were all required to be loaded with their fuels prior to launch ( they all used nonstorable propellants ); and they could only be launched from above ground ( after long pre-launch checkouts ) launch pads, making them vulnerable to attack-the first ICBMs, Atlas 1 and Titan 1 were of this type.
A prime example of this is the Titan IV, probably the costliest per-unit launch vehicle in history ( perhaps following the Space Shuttle ).
Following launch using a Titan / Centaur launch vehicle on August 20, 1975 and a 10-month cruise to Mars, the orbiter began returning global images of Mars about 5 days before orbit insertion.
Following launch using a Titan / Centaur launch vehicle and a 333 day cruise to Mars, the Viking 2 Orbiter began returning global images of Mars prior to orbit insertion.
This research continued throughout the 1980s while the Titan II ballistic missile was being phased out and utilized for early spacecraft launch.
Its personnel were busy with helping the nation recover from launch failures of the Titan 34-D and the Space Shuttle.
The Titan IV Solid Rocket Booster static testing began and successfully ended its validation tests and acceptability as the newest booster in the Air Force, providing an additional 25 percent boost to the Titan launch system.
This was the prototype of the hardened Titan I launch control facility and consisted of one silo-lift launcher, blockhouse, and associated equipment.
Titan II test launch from Vandenberg
This was the prototype of the hardened Titan I launch control facility at its operational sites.
The first " silo-lift " launch of the Titan I was successful in September 1961, and the first SAC launch of the ICBM was successful in January 1962.
As a result, the Titan I ICBM launch complex ( 395-A1 / A2 / A3 ) at Vandenberg was turned over to the Strategic Air Command 395th Strategic Missile Squadron to perform test launches of the missile.
On 5 March 1965, the last test launch of a Titan I ICBM conducted by the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg was successful.
The LGM-25C Titan II ICBM was a second-generation ICBM with storable propellants, all inertial guidance, and in-silo launch capability.
Construction of the first Titan II site began in 1962, and eventually Vandenberg operated four Titan II launch complexes.
Most of the testing of the missile was done at Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida by the 6555th Aerospace Test Group, and the first successful underground silo launch of a Titan II ICBM took place at Vandenberg by the 395th SMS in April 1963.
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