Truck'n and trick'n out a Titan I

An aging intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that was used in the early 1970s for a variety of NASA studies related to the development of the space shuttle, was trucked on Thursday the short distance from where it had sat outside since the early 1980s at NASA Ames Research Center to outside a repurposed McDonald's restaurant where for the past two years the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project has been underway. There, the Titan I will be restored and upgraded for service as an educational tool and a smallsat payload integration testbed by a team representing the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, SkyCorp, Inc., and SpaceRef Interactive, Inc. Although the two-stage Titan I was never used to loft payloads into space, it was briefly considered for the Air Force's Dyna-Soar program and was the predecessor to the Titan II that launched Gemini.