Word: titan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costs a top-level committee of General Bradley, Air Force Controller Lieut. General William D. Eckert and Inspector General Lieut. General Joseph F. Carroll last week launched 70 specialists into the field to survey management practices of Air Force prime contractors. First to be studied is Martin Co., Titan missile prime contractor. Martin was picked because the Titan program is at the stage where catching mistakes might save money. The Atlas missile program is too old, the Minuteman too young...
ICBMs: "Three separate systems-Atlas, Titan and Minuteman (and now Titan II)-are simply too many. The fear engendered by Soviet rockets has destroyed prudent judgment. We seem to be preparing not for retaliation but for obliteration...
This is the landing system that will be employed by Dyna-Soar, the Air Force's $700 million, Boeing-built, maneuverable space vehicle, scheduled for first flight tests about 1964. Designed to be fired into orbit atop a Titan missile, Dyna-Soar is the closest thing to a spaceship in development now in the U.S. The dog capsule appears to put Russia well ahead of the U.S. in spaceship manufacture; its massive weight indicates that the passenger cabin probably will be large enough to support a crew of three men for a sustained period of flight...
These two events would have been plenty for a single week. But in the accumulating momentum of missilery, U.S. missilemen fired successful test shots of Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic mis siles, got off a Polaris intermediate-range missile that traveled 1,100 miles, sent three Bomarc defensive missiles after fastmoving targets, and hit them (one Bomarc intercepted a supersonic Regulus II missile). And, only one week after an X-15 plane set a new speed record for piloted aircraft, the same X-15 climbed to an altitude of more than 131,000 ft., higher than any plane had ever...
...protect it against enemy attack, the Titan must be stored underground, and requires a complex of elevator platforms, guidance antennas, fuel-storage and loading systems, and interconnecting tunnels. Once the alert comes, the missile is fueled in minutes and readied for firing. When the word is given, massive doors open at ground level and the Titan begins to emerge, rises until it is ready to blast off on its 5,500-mile journey...