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Article: LAST OF THE TITANS READY FOR BLASTOFF AFTER TODAY'S SLATED LAUNCH, COLO.-BUILT ROCKET TO BE RETIRED.(Business)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- October 19, 2005
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Byline: Roger Fillion, Rocky Mountain News
A Colorado-built booster rocket is poised today to be the last of the Titan family to blast off, capping a 50-year history dating to the Cold War era.
If all goes as planned, the nearly 200-foot Titan IV will lift off from a California launch pad and deploy a spy satellite into space for Uncle Sam. It would be launch No. 368 for Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Titan.
The Titan began service as a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile stashed in underground silos scattered across Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado and elsewhere.
It later evolved into a booster rocket that carried Gemini astronauts such as the late ...