Missile Passes Test: Titan 3-C Is Most Powerful Known
Missile Passes Test: Titan 3-C Is Most Powerful Known
Clip: 426674_1_1
Year Shot: 1965
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1737
Original Film: 038-050-04
HD: N/A
Location: Cape Kennedy, Florida
Timecode: 00:10:19 - 00:12:09
The most powerful rocket known is launched at Cape Kennedy. It is the Titan 3-C, 127 feet of monstrous power that is boosted into space by two solid fuel rockets attached to its side. The shoot is complete success and foreshadows the orbiting of a 30-foot laboratory for study in outer space. Cape Kennedy, Florida The Titan 3-C sitting on its launching pad. MS - The Titan with its boosters attached to its sides. LS - Titan 3-C firing its engines. LS - Titan 3-C gaining altitude. LS - The rocket is covered by clouds and its a very cool shot of the twin engines excreting fire and smoke, the rocket levels off. Titan climbing into the atmosphere and finely it disappears into total cloud cover.