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Last Titan Launch from Florida
The Breeze writes "Driving along San Diego's freeways, I often passed a large Lockheed Martin facility that had big ATLAS and TITAN logos on them - it looked like it was still operating, even though I thought the Titan missile had been retired years ago. Well, according to CNN, the last Titan to be launched from Florida just took off with a classified military payload. I had no idea that they were still using 50-year old technology to launch stuff into space. If you are not adverse to MS Word documents, Patrick AFB, (the Air Force station at Cape Canaveral) has some press releases about the launch. Interested parties might want to click here for more info on Titan, along with links to the Titan Missile Museum where you can actually see a Titan in a silo -- and where Zeframe Cochrane launched his first warp ship from."
Ah...Titan was NOT reliable. It had a success rate of only 86% (http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/titan4b.htm) Atlas has a near perfect record for the last few decades.
Please deliver your classified military payload safely. May the death, destruction and oppression contained in your hallowed cylinder bring freedom to all 'muricans!
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the last Titan to be launched from Florida just took off with a classified military payload
I can't be the only foreigner wondering what the hell the US military is doing putting something so big and heavy that it requires a Titan into space. So much for Kennedy's speech at Rice about keeping weapons of mass destruction out of space, eh? China you watching this?
we've used titans for 50 years now to put spy satellites in polar orbit.
Ah that's OK then. Silly me.
the emerging threat from China
Uh, would that be the same China that relies on the U.S. to buy a huge chunk of the goods they produce, and that loans hundreds of billions of dollars every year to the U.S. to help prop up the economy there so that they can continue buying those goods? That China?
And these military payloads, they fit into this economic equation how?
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