Titan Rocket Era Nears an End
Titan rocket launchChristopher Smart writes in The Salt Lake Tribune:
In a huge fireball and a towering cloud of smoke, a great era in American rocketry neared an end.More here.
The second-to-last Titan rocket-motor segment was destroyed here Tuesday afternoon, as part of closing out the 50-year rocket propulsion program that powered everything from intercontinental ballistic missiles to manned space flights.
Shortly before 2:30 p.m., technicians at the Utah Test and Training Range on the western shores of the Great Salt Lake ignited and destroyed an aft segment of a Titan IV-B rocket. Thursday, the last segment will be burned up, the finale of a historic chapter in space flight.
posted by Fergie @ 8/23/2006 07:12:00 PM
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