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Mission Titan II was a second-generation intercontinental ballistic missile with two and a half times the payload of the Atlas, making it ideal for the two-person Gemini spacecraft. Unlike Atlas, which had to be filled with super-cold liquid oxygen just prior to launch, Titan II could be fired at a moment's notice thanks to room-temperature propellants. Its vital statistics included two stages, a total weight of 408,000 pounds, a payload to orbit of 8,000 pounds, and Aerozine-50 and nitrogen tetroxide propellants that ignited on contact.
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