Titan Rocket Family (US)

Titan is a family of U.S. expendable rockets used between 1959 and 2005. A total of 368 rockets of this family were launched, including all the Project Gemini manned flights of the mid-1960s. Titans were part of the American intercontinental ballistic missile deterrent until the late 1980s, and lifted other American military payloads as well as civilian agency intelligence-gathering satellites. Titans also were used to send highly successful interplanetary scientific probes throughout the Solar System.
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#Now in 1966, Gemini IX-A, the 7th crewed mission, launches on a 3-day flight: http://go.nasa.gov/1o3zt1b pic.twitter.com/c0g2Tk9UFe
Remembering Project Gemini
A distant view of the successful launching of the first manned Gemini flight, on March 23, 1965. The Gemini-Titan 3 (GT-3) lifted off Pad 19, at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 9:24 a.m. (EST). The Gemini-3 spacecraft "Molly Brown" carried astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, command pilot, and John W. Young, pilot, on three successful orbits of Earth.
Los Angeles Air Force Base
First Generation Air Force Ballistic Missiles Titan I missile J-7 begins the first successful flight test of an operational Titan I ICBM on 10 August 1960 at the Atlantic Missile Range. (USAF photo)
Voyager: a space odyssey – in pictures
Voyager: a space odyssey – in pictures
February 6, 1959: The first successful flight of the Titan I intercontinental…