Final Titan IVA fails on launch with NRO payload aboard

The final Titan IVA in the U.S. Air Force inventory failed shortly after liftoff yesterday, taking with it a $1 billion National Reconnaissance Office spacecraft believed to have been a geostationary signals intelligence platform. Range safety officers at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., sent a...

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