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Palomar

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Re: Farewell to a venerated old rocket...

Article
 
*If someone's already posted about this, I didn't see it in the couple of threads which returned with Search.

5 decades of service, launched the Gemini manned missions.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

SpaceNut

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Re: Farewell to a venerated old rocket...

I was just viewing that article an further down on the page where  it lists all the flights flown by which type I noticed that it had been used for Gemini missions.

Begs to question then, what is a man rated vehicle? But that is for another thread.

I saved the images of the launch from the page as possible backgrounds for my desktop. They are quite spectacular...

Palomar

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Re: Farewell to a venerated old rocket...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/titan/b26/gallery1.html

*Photo gallery of the final launch.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

SpaceNut

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Re: Farewell to a venerated old rocket...

Great launch tower images.

I can not help but notice how much the Titan looks like what Nasa envision DaStick with the CEV to which looks so simular in shape.