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sp1989

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If it goes without saying, why say it? I know you're trying to help out, but... have some faith in me? :(

OMG I totally have faith in you Bob!! That is not what I meant at all!! I suppose i shouldn't have or needed to preface it all. I just wanted to say what I thought about the stock footage from NASA and the clip from "From the Earth to the Moon" would be a good idea. I apologize if you thought I was implying something different.

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It's hard to believe I originally watched From the Earth to the Moon before my son was born, and now he can drive a car. I can probably use the footage because I do non-profit documentaries, as long as they get credit, but I am not sure I will. I had other ideas.

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It's hard to believe I originally watched From the Earth to the Moon before my son was born, and now he can drive a car. I can probably use the footage because I do non-profit documentaries, as long as they get credit, but I am not sure I will. I had other ideas.

Its hard to believe that I was 10. My father rarely let me stay up and watch tv let alone on a Sunday night during school. I knew it was special when he let me stay up and watch it with him. I wish they would put that show on one of the streaming services or atleast back on hbo. I don't even think its on the HBOgo and that has almost everything HBO has ever produced.

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I know, but it did reach space (orbit?) on a few launches, and was a building block for Titan II

I think we might be past the first flight of the Titan 1. I believe the first flight of the Titan 1 was in 1959? Although the last I am sure was sometime in the mid 1960's. Still any significant flight of the Titan 2 I think we will see will be the Gemini test flights. Besides the Gemini flights I don't think the Titan 2 was used for anything else in the 60's with the notable exception of being a major part of out ICBM arsenal. It wasn't until later we the air force used it as a launch vehicle.

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Yea, I can't do every launch vehicle's first flight. If I did then I'd get mired in the many variations next. "Hey Bob you need to do the Titan 4 first launch because reasons, and the Minotaur II 'cause reasons, and Athena-2C for reasons..." and so on. I can basically do about 3-4 flights per video, and each video is going to be 1 year of real life. So I need to look at each year and say "what 3-4 flights are the most iconic or contain super meaningful 'firsts' in spaceflight history?"

So for example for 1959 (year of the first Titan flight, which was a suborbital testing mission "up and back down" with no meaningful payload) I need to choose between Luna 8K72, or a Titan. Vanguard, or Titan. The formation of the Mercury program, or Titan. Discoverer 2, or Titan.

Hopefully this gives you some good examples and ideas about how I choose my missions, and why. Thanks for replies!

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Did the Titan I launch any satellite, because I built one in RO and it had about 8000 m/s of DV I think. Enough for a Nuke delivery system, but as a launch vehicle.

Titan 1 I don't know but the Titan rocket was a prolific launch vehicle.

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No, Titan I was not orbital. It was mostly held in reserve to deliver nukes, and so most never flew either.

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Actually let me revise that statement. Technically the missile could have reached an orbit with no payload, or even with a very small payload. A 3 ton nuke would have been suborbital. All of its actual flights were suborbital.

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