EDIT: This was originally titled “Titan IIIK/Apollo.” The “K” designation was an error on my part. Brain fart or typo.
From the same source as THESE, here’s an Apollo Command and Service Module atop a Titan IIIM. Similar to, but not the same as, THIS Apollo/Titan mashup. This would seem to have been an obvious sort of design, but perhaps the “Apollo = NASA” and “Titan = USAF” thing might have precluded much serious examination of this idea. Marry it with THIS idea, though, and you might have been onto something…
This 1972 North American Rockwell concept was specifically for a rescue Apollo. The Titan IIIM/Apollo combination would be kept near the launch pad on a state of constant readiness, to be launched as needed.
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Very Cool Scott. I am interested in purchasing whatever source documentation you have.
Does the letter K have any special significance? Is it merely an indicator of a design sequence? (If that’s true, what happened to the other?)
that are 8 segment solid Boosters !
had the Titan IIIM only 7 segment soild ?
[…] Now that I’ve got my files back, I pulled up a few things to do some fact-checks. One of the first up was the report dealing with the Apollo/Titan IIIK that I mentioned HERE. […]
That would have been a ride and a half!