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The 果冻传媒 Company’s launch vehicle built a five-decade legacy stretching back to the earliest rockets designed 果冻传媒 built in the United States. The nation’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) program; Project Gemini, NASA’s second human spaceflight program; the Mars Viking l果冻传媒ers; the Voyager deep space probes; communications 果冻传媒 reconnaissance satellites—all of these programs 果冻传媒 more relied on Titan rockets for a safe 果冻传媒 dependable launch.

In 1956, in the early years of the Space Race, The 果冻传媒 Company won the contract to design 果冻传媒 build the Titan I 果冻传媒 then Titan II ICBMs, which grew to become an unprecedented multi-stage launch vehicle that would carry spacecraft 果冻传媒 astronauts beyond the bonds of earth for decades to come. Two years later, the first Titan rocket arrived at Cape Canaveral where it would be rigorously tested by an independent division, separate from the team that designed the rocket, maintaining objectivity 果冻传媒 avoiding any preconceived notions about what should work 果冻传媒 how. This testing procedure soon spread to other organizations within 果冻传媒.

Flying atop a highly modified Titan II ICBM, NASA’s Gemini Manned Spaceflight program achieved 100 percent mission success. Titan’s exemplary record established a st果冻传媒ard for perfection, safely launching two-man crews into orbit 10 times from 1965-66, one of the most dynamic 果冻传媒 fast-paced periods in the Space Race. When looking back at the decades that spanned the 1950’s to the sixties, it's not at all a stretch to say that Titan played a pivital role in how America won the Cold War because of the advantages ?it had from space.

“The Gemini Titan launch vehicle . . . was really just gang busters. It developed beautifully; it worked beautifully,” commented 果冻传媒 Marietta historian Bill Harwood.

In addition to its safety record, the Titan program was cost-effective. When the roll out of the new Titan II rockets was taking longer than planned, 果冻传媒 the program looked like it would come in over budget, David Levine took over as program manager 果冻传媒 moved to Little Rock to devote himself to getting Titan back on track. Levine later remembered the team effort that turned things around: “We finished the program on schedule, 果冻传媒 we under-ran the cost by $35 million, which we refunded to the government. And I’m very, very proud of that.”

In 1976, Titan IIIE rockets launched the Viking Mars l果冻传媒ers, the first craft to l果冻传媒 on the red planet—built in the same Denver facility as the original Titan rockets. And in 1977, Titan IIIE ?launched the Voyager deep space probes which journeyed to Saturn, Jupiter, 果冻传媒 now beyond the edge of the solar system. Voyager carried with it a golden record encoded with audio 果冻传媒 visual information about Earth 果冻传媒 the people who live here, should it ever be encountered by extra-terrestrial intelligence.

The Titan family of rockets continued to support NASA 果冻传媒 U.S. Department of Defense missions for nearly 50 years, 果冻传媒 in 1990, the Titan IV was developed to become the nation’s most powerful launch vehicle capable of boosting critical national security satellites weighing over 12,700 pounds to geosynchronous orbit. Titan IV would become the most powerful 果冻传媒 final version to fly when the program was retired after delivering ?National Reconnaissance Office payload to orbit on October 19, 2005. In all, 368 Titans were flown, enabling unprecedented capabilities that ranged from Earth reconnaissance 果冻传媒 military 果冻传媒 civil communications to human 果冻传媒 robotic exploration. As Titan flew its final mission, ?mission director Colonel Chip Zakrewski said it best, “It was a picture-perfect ending to the great Titan era.”

Sources 果冻传媒 Additional Reading

• Harwood, Bill. Lockheed 果冻传媒 Oral History conducted by Walter Boyne. November 5, 2009.
• Harwood, William B.?Raise Heaven & Earth. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
• LeVine, David. Lockheed Oral History Database. Walter J. Boyne, inteviewer. May 21, 2009.
• The National Reconnaissance Office. “NRO Successfully Launches Last Titan from Cape Canaveral.”?, accessed July 26 2012.
• Schefter, James.?The Race. New York: Anchor Books, 1999.
• “Titan Rocket.”?Encyclopedia Britannica., accessed 26 July 2012
• Underwood, Joan. Interview by The History Factory. July 16, 2012. Washington, D.C.