Word: titan
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Best Treated. The report on Aerospace's activities, a product of eleven months' work, touches very little on technological activities. Secretary Zuckert credits Aerospace with guiding the development of the Titan III and Minuteman II missiles; Air Force Systems Commander General Bernard A. Schriever says that its engineers saved $100 million by improving the reliability of Atlas and Thor boosters. Aerospace has grown to be the 45th largest defense contractor, in the course of working on $309 million in military contracts has collected $15.9 million in fees. What seemed to bother the investigators was how the taxpayers...
...Force envisions it, the orbiting lab will be a canister, about 41 ft. long and 10 ft. wide, that will be attached to a stripped-down Gemini. The two vehicles will be lofted together into space by a Titan IIIC rocket. Once they are in orbit, the spacemen will crawl through a hatch in the Gemini heat shield and enter the lab. For the return to earth, they will simply reverse the procedure, then detach from the 7½-ton canister and descend in the Gemini. Later on, other Gemini crews will take off from the earth, link...
Thursday, August 19 If the tentatively scheduled Gemini-Titan 5 space shot goes as planned, it will be covered by a three-network pool (a TV first) during the 8½-day flight. Plans for live pool coverage of the recovery, however, have been postponed until...
...Missile Site 373-4, nestled among blackjack oaks in the Ozark foothills ten miles northwest of Searcy, Ark., had been out of operation for nearly six weeks. While the 174-ft.-deep silo, one of 54 Titan II sites in the U.S., underwent repairs to its air conditioning, plumbing and exhaust systems, its nuclear warhead was in storage at Little Rock Air Force Base, 55 miles away. The missile itself, a five-story, 18,000-m.p.h. Titan II of the type that is scheduled to launch this week's eight-day Gemini mission, remained in place as 55 civilian...
Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. of Hartford, insurance carrier for the Omaha contracting firm of Peter Kiewit Sons' Co., estimated that it would pay more than $1,000,000 in benefits to survivors. Pending its month-long investigation, the Air Force suspended similar work on other Titan II sites. What caused the disaster, worst in U.S. missile history, was officially a mystery. The likeliest theory is that a diesel generator had somehow switched on in the third level, throwing a spark into the volatile atmosphere where pipe fitters were working on the hydraulic system. Thus the Titan II, deadliest...