Titan missile in service structure erector. Technicians work around missile at various levels of service structure erector.
Views of what appears to be a smooth launching of a Titan missile. The service structure erector is released and the missile takes off. The camera tracks it as it moves ever higher, with rocket motors burning smoothly. As its image begins to get quite small in the distance, at TC:01:26, the missile begins failing, and explodes in a huge fireball. (Note: This was Missile C-4, the ninth Titan I launch and the second Lot C missile. The guidance compartment collapsed from aerodynamic stress 52 seconds into launch, causing missile pitch down followed by Range Safety destruct. The falling object is the second stage, which separated intact and inadvertently began firing. With no attitude control, it tumbled end over end until shutting down from propellant starvation and impacting the ocean several miles downrange.) This was Missile C-4, the ninth Titan I launch and the second Lot C missile. The guidance compartment collapsed from aerodynamic stress 52 seconds into launch, causing missile pitch down followed by Range Safety destruct. The falling object is the second stage, which separated intact and inadvertently began firing. With no attitude control, it tumbled end over end until shutting down from propellant starvation and impacting the ocean several miles downrange.
Titan Missile ready to launch from the launch pad. It takes off. Large explosion in the air as Titan Missile blows up. Missile part descends from the sky leaving a trail of smoke. The missile part falls on the ground.
Titan Missile ready to launch from the launch pad. It takes off. Water sprayed on a launch pad to extinguish fire.
Titan Missile ignites and takes off from launch pad. Water sprayed on a launch pad to extinguish fire.
Titan Missile launched in the background. Radar Antenna Radome in the foreground. Missile takes off and blows up during the flight. Missile part descends after the explosion. View of Radome in the foreground
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