g_v_bw_o_n (1962 USAF photo no. 167453)
“USAF - Cape Canaveral stretching out below, the GEMINI-TITAN II booster, bearing its two-man spacecraft, thunders skyward headed for orbit around the earth in this artist’s concept. Martin Company’s Space Systems Division is modifying the 103-foot-tall, 150-ton Air Force TITAN II for use as launch vehicle in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s GEMINI project. The giant booster has a total thrust in both stages of 530,000 pounds. Goal of Martin engineers working on Project GEMINI is to provide the utmost safety for the spacecraft crew.
U. S. AIR FORCE PHOTO”
One of Frank R. DiPietro's gallery of fantastic Gemini/Gemini-Titan depictions, I'm sure along with many others that we'll never see.
I believe the view is southerly, and the cluster of buildings to be the industrial area of CCAFS, with historic Hangar ‘S’ in there somewhere. A couple of Titan (imagine that) launch complexes are partially visible to the lower left..I think one of them being LC-19...future launchpad of all Gemini flights.
Credit: “Save Hangar S” website
www.nasa.gov/feature/historic-hangar-s-was-americas-cradl...
www.nasa.gov/content/hangar-s-history
Credit: Library of Congress website
g_v_bw_o_n (1962 USAF photo no. 167453)
“USAF - Cape Canaveral stretching out below, the GEMINI-TITAN II booster, bearing its two-man spacecraft, thunders skyward headed for orbit around the earth in this artist’s concept. Martin Company’s Space Systems Division is modifying the 103-foot-tall, 150-ton Air Force TITAN II for use as launch vehicle in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s GEMINI project. The giant booster has a total thrust in both stages of 530,000 pounds. Goal of Martin engineers working on Project GEMINI is to provide the utmost safety for the spacecraft crew.
U. S. AIR FORCE PHOTO”
One of Frank R. DiPietro's gallery of fantastic Gemini/Gemini-Titan depictions, I'm sure along with many others that we'll never see.
I believe the view is southerly, and the cluster of buildings to be the industrial area of CCAFS, with historic Hangar ‘S’ in there somewhere. A couple of Titan (imagine that) launch complexes are partially visible to the lower left..I think one of them being LC-19...future launchpad of all Gemini flights.
Credit: “Save Hangar S” website
www.nasa.gov/feature/historic-hangar-s-was-americas-cradl...
www.nasa.gov/content/hangar-s-history
Credit: Library of Congress website