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mh...@ohiohills.com

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Sep 2, 2010, 7:16:59 PM9/2/10
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Has the whole thing ever been released? All I can find online is the
excerpts in NASA's stuff online. But not the whole thing.

Any ideas?

Thanks.


Mike

Pat Flannery

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Sep 3, 2010, 7:15:33 AM9/3/10
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This what you are looking for?:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/report61.html
Some of it was apparently classified.

Pat

mh...@ohiohills.com

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Sep 3, 2010, 10:10:41 AM9/3/10
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On Sep 3, 7:15 am, Pat Flannery <flan...@daktel.com> wrote:

I found that quickly. It's just not the whole thing.

> Some of it was apparently classified.

Yes, and I've not been able to find the rest of the document. It
might remain secret, but after fifty years ...?


Mike

Pat Flannery

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Sep 3, 2010, 1:46:49 PM9/3/10
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It's probably the fact that no one decided to go to the trouble of doing
a FOIA request to get it declassified.
I can see why that particular part of the report was classified at the
time; it would have discussed things like total payload capability of
Atlas, Titan, and Titan II to orbit as well as their over-all
reliability...which the Soviets would have loved to know, as Atlas and
Titan were operational at the time, and Titan II was in advanced
development.

Pat

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