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The Last Titan Launch 2005 October 27
The Last Titan
Explanation: On October 19th, 2005 a rocket blasted
off from Vandengberg Air Force Base - the last Titan rocket. Carrying a
payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office, the successful Titan
IV B launch brings to a close the Titan program whose first launch was
in 1959. Originally designed as an intercontinental ballistic missle, the
Titan rocket ultimately evolved into a heavy lift workhorse, launching
defense, commercial, and scientific payloads to Earth orbit and beyond.
In fact, many historic space explorations began with Titan launches, including
manned Gemini missions, the Viking missions to Mars, the Voyager tours
of the outer solar system, and the Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn.
Cassini's probe Huygens accomplished the most distant landing on another
world, while Voyager 1 is now humanity's most distant spacecraft.
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Originally posted by pippadee at ATS THIS
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Antarctica comes to mind... but thats where the anti gravity ships are leaving from :P How about this spot? "The Space Test Program (STP) is a part the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Space and Missile Test and Evaluation Directorate located at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The DoD Space Test Program was [b]created in May 1965 [/b]as a multi-user space program whose role is to be the [b]primary provider of spaceflight for the entire Department of Defense[/b]space research community (this role was revalidated in a Nov 1995 memo from the Secretary of Defense). The Air Force is the executive agent for this DoD program. The primary objective of STP is to fly the maximum number of DoD space research experiments possible consistent with priority, opportunity and available funding. From the [b]first launch in Jun 1967 to Jun 1997 over 400 experiments have been flown on over 120 missions using dedicated free-flyers, the space shuttle or piggyback payload opportunities.[/b] ummm whats a "free-flyer"? Read all about the Space Command here... they are bigger than you think http://www.landoflegends.us/43ancients/02files/Space_Command01.html
Someone also mentioned living near Vandenberg and they never saw any big rockets like the Saturn 5... funny about living close to something... I live near Nellis AFB and weird stuff flies out of there all the time... but after awhile you don't even pay attention anymore... Have a look at this... [ex] [b]Astronomy Picture of the Day
The Last Titan
Explanation: [b]On October 19th,(2005)[/b], a rocket blasted off from Vandengberg Air Force Base - the last Titan rocket. Carrying a payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office, the successful Titan IV B launch brings to a close the Titan program whose [b]first launch was in 1959[/b]. Originally designed as an intercontinental ballistic missle, the Titan rocket ultimately evolved into a heavy lift workhorse, [b]launching defense[/b], commercial, and scientific payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. In fact, many historic space explorations began with Titan launches, including manned Gemini missions, the Viking missions to Mars, the Voyager tours of the outer solar system, and the Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn. Cassini's probe Huygens accomplished the most distant landing on another world, while Voyager 1 is now humanity's most distant spacecraft. [im]http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/image/0510/lastTitan_vandenberg_f25.jpg[/im] [url=http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/ap051027.html]SOURCE[/url] [/ex] Now have a look at this sketch... Saturn V series... Have a look at #1 on the right... the Apollo rocket... and then look at #6 and compare it to the last Titan launch above... Go ahead convince me I am crazy :P
[im]http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/s/satvgen.gif[/im]
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(teaser
posted to see who is paying attention)