but also lost the use of the heavy-lift Titan IV rocket, which we depended on to launch spy satellites. Our space capabilities had not fully recovered by the time of the first Gulf War in 1991.

A two-stage rocket, Atlas V consists of a Common Core ... This former Titan III and Titan IV launch pad was constructed in the 1960s and has been used for Atlas V launches since the type was ...

His love for helicopters eventually led to a position with Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) where he had the honor of working on the Titan IV rocket. He received an award for developing a new ...

The first is at the launch of the Titan IV rocket, which has a failure contingency rate of between one in ten and one in twenty. The other is when the probe, voyaging from Venus, circles Earth to ...

Before becoming an astronaut, Wilson worked for two years for the former Martin Marietta Astronautics Group, serving as a loads and dynamics engineer for the Titan IV rocket. Wilson’s many honors ...

As a Loads and Dynamics engineer for the Titan IV rocket, Wilson was responsible for performing coupled loads analyses for the launch vehicle and payloads during flight events. Wilson left Martin ...

Few people believed the rocket launch ecosystem on Florida's Space Coast could ... the maiden flight of a Vulcan on Jan. 8, the final Delta IV Heavy on April 9, the maiden mission of Boeing's ...

SpaceX conducted its second launch in barely 48 hours on Wednesday, with their Falcon 9 rocket boosting a Dragon spacecraft on the first leg of its cargo run to the International Space Station.

SM-65A Atlas ICBM in 1958 Naturally, the Atlas V that’s flying today looks nothing like the squat stainless steel rocket that carried John Glenn to orbit in 1962. Aerospace technology has ...

The Pacific Northwest is a fun, beautiful, and adventurous part of the United States. With several national parks, a rugged coast, and a spattering of towns ranging from quirky to serene, you’ll find ...

Titan Drive. Atlas Lane. And that's just one small stretch ... It's marking an end of an era as we prepare to watch the powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket liftoff from its pad one final time, possibly as ...