{"id":246,"date":"2009-02-06T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=246"},"modified":"2013-02-12T05:56:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T10:56:43","slug":"first-titan-launch-fifty-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/first-titan-launch-fifty-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"First Titan Launch, Fifty Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first successful flight of a Titan missile &#8212; in this case, a Titan-I &#8212; from Cape Canaveral. 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