Photograph of the First Titan Rocket Launch 6 Feb. 1959 Signed By Col. Albert Wetzel

This Large 18" x 15" photograph was given to me by the daughter of The Secratary of the Air Force. ( Lyle S. Garlock) The Titan was 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.
THE INSCRIPTION READS : To. Secretary Lyle S. Garlock.
The First Titan Launch .
6 February 1959
Signed Albert Wetzel
Col. USAF
Program Director
THE BACK OF THE PHOTOGRAPH READS : U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO
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