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Martin Marietta Archives

Throughout the history of the predecessor companies of Lockheed Martin, keeping employees informed was done through in-house newsletters — primarily the Martin Marietta News. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Greg Bollendonk, Tom Booth, and Ben Clark, many issues of the Martin Marietta News are now available to read in PDF format. Other documents will be added as they are scanned and uploaded to the website.

Please note that this is not a complete collection of the Martin Marietta News or other in-house newsletters. If you have any newsletters or documents not listed here, please contact Steve Sande for possible inclusion in these electronic archives.

The Glenn L. Martin Company (1917 – 1961)

No history of Lockheed Martin is complete without a look at The Glenn L. Martin Company, one of the early pioneering aerospace companies along with the Lougheed Aircraft Manufacturing Company (later Lockheed Aircraft Company). These four documents provide a partial history of the Martin Company between its founding in 1917 until the merger with American-Marietta Corporation in 1961 to form Martin Marietta.

  • Martin History 1: Boxkites to Bombers
  • Martin History 2: Growth of Baltimore
  • Martin History 3: Magazine Stories
  • Martin History 4: Martin Star, 1942-43

Martin Marietta News

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Astronautics Group News

Jump To Year: 1990

1973
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 7/1973 Skylab at Liftoff
Number 10/1973Open House Edition
1974
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 8/1974Family Day at the Circus
Number 9/1974Fisheye View of Titan IIIE
Number 10/1974R&D Winning Big Share of Proposals Submitted
Number 11/1974Red Rocks Pops Concert
Number 12/1974Mars Mobile Lander
Number 13/1974Titan III/Centaur; Viking Lander Camera
Number 14/1974Viking Lander Tests; Vital Signs Monitor
Number 15/1974Viking Lander Tests; Teleoperator Craft R&D
Number 16/1974Season’s Greetings; LST Role
1975
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1975Viking Craft Simulates Mars Landing
Number 2/1975Plant Protection; Bond Drive
Number 3/1975Second Titan IIIE; Viking To Study Mars Features
Number 4/1975Lander Requirements Demanding; Helios
Number 5/1975Viking Compatibility Tests; Scholarships Awarded
Number 6/1975Annual Awards Night
Number 7/1975Transtage IUS; Space Program Benefits
Number 8/1975Solar Energy Pilot Plant; ATS-6 Moved
Number 9/1975Viking Lander Heat Sterilized; Titan III Contract
Number 10/1975Lightweight Air Tanks For Navy
Number 11/1975Destination: Mars – Viking I Launched
Number 12/1975Viking On Way To Mars
Number 13/1975Butterfield Stage Road; X-24C Proposed
Number 14/1975Viking Looks At Earth; NATO III Comsat Testing
Number 15/1975A Look at 1975, 1976
1976
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1976Viking I Journey To Mars; SeaSat
Number 2/1976MMU; Viking II at halfway point
Number 3/1976TFCC; CCMS; Sandia Heliostat
Number 4/1976Titan IIIC Launches 4 Satellites
Number 5/1976IUS Proposal; Shuttle External Tank Test Items
Number 6/1976Bennington Flag; Shuttle Contamination Assessed
Number 7/1976Viking Looks At Mars; MCIL
Number 8/1976Viking Landing Sites
Number 9/1976Bicentennial
Number 10/1976Viking I Precision Landing
Number 11/1976Answers & Questions From Mars
Number 12/1976VIking 2 Lands Safely
Number 13/1976Phobos Up Close; Martian Water
Number 14/1976Solar Boiler Test; Michoud Ops
Number 15/1976NASA Seeks Astronaut Candidates
Number 16/1976Division Expenses; MX Missile
1977
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1977100th Launch of a Titan III; MX Study Contract
Number 2/1977External Tank; Viking Relativity Measurements
Number 3/1977Look back at 1st Titan launch; Michoud Ops
Number 4/1977Viking Lander Digs A Deep Hole On Mars
Number 5/1977Space Sextant; Space Telescope Bid
Number 6/1977PACE; Shuttle ET As Space Station?
Number 7/1977NASA Honors Viking Contributors
Number 8/1977Mobile Viking Lander Mockup in Paris
Number 9/1977SCATHA; Titan IIIE/Centaur For Voyager Probes
Number 10/1977Shuttle SRB Parachutes Tested
Number 11/1977MX Missile Mobile Launcher; Viking Landers
Number 12/1977Voyager II Launched on Titan IIIE/Centaur
Number 13/1977First Shuttle ET Shipped
Number 14/1977New Phone System
Number 15/1977Paper Drive For Operation Santa Claus
Number 16/1977Teleoperator Retrieval System; Tethered Satellite
Number 17/19771977 Retrospective
1978
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1978Launch Vehicles Organization Realigned
Number 2/1978MIOC Proposal Planning
Number 3/197820th Anniversary of Vanguard; Shuttle ET Tests
Number 4/1978Large Space Structures; CIS Realignment
Number 5/1978Skylab Reuse Study; Instrument Business Growth
Number 6/1978Air Force Selects Division for MX
Number 7/1978Shuttle Engines Fire; Titan III 34D
Number 8/1978Ground Vibration Testing Of Shuttle ET
Number 9/1978CAD/CAM; Shuttle Main Engines Third Test
Number 10/1978Open House ’78; 3rd Year Of Viking Mars Ops
Number 11/1978Martin Marietta Night At The Denver Bears
Number 12/1978SCATHA Begins Thermal Vacuum Test
Number 13/1978MX Launch Canister Test; GPS Proposal
Number 14/1978Know The Candidates (Election Edition)
Number 15/1978SCATHA Spin Test
Number 16/1978TRS Design Review; Extra ‘Bird’ Found On Pad
Number 17/19781978 Year In Review
1979
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1979TRS Contract Termination; Titan III Orbits DSCS
Number 2/1979SCATHA Launch A Success
Number 3/1979Intelsat V Tanks Shipped;
Number 4/1979Viking Lander Featured In “Cosmos” Series
Number 5/1979Pathfinder Shuttle ET Ships To KSC
Number 6/1979PACE Used On Successful Titan Launch
Number 7/1979Design Review Conducted By Satellite
Number 8/1979Carter Gives Go-Ahead For MX Deployment
Number 9/1979Honors Night; $500 Bounty For New Employees
Number 10/1979First Flight External Tank Delivered
Number 11/1979Shuttle Visits Denver; Silver Snoopy Awards
Number 12/1979Winter On Mars; Employees Discuss Credit Union
Number 13/1979Solar Energy Contracts; Space Antennas
Number 14/1979MMU Development; Red Rocks Credit Union
Number 15/1979Faint Object Spectrograph
Number 16/1979Letters To Martin Marietta; DSCS Launch
Number 17/1979Space Shuttle Liquid Boost Module
Special Issue/1979SALT 2 Treaty
1980
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1980Red Rocks Credit Union Opens; Tile Repair Kit
Number 2/1980MMU Tested; Michoud Manager’s Flight Record
Number 3/1980Team Bids On Shuttle Cargo Processing
Number 4/1980Titan 34D Delivered; LBM Contract Win
Number 5/1980Michaud Welding Mandrel; IRIS
Number 6/1980Tethered Satellite; SRB Parachute Work
Number 7/1980Employee Referral Program; GPS Proposal
Number 8/1980Signs Of Safety; SSB Addition
Number 9/1980Astronauts Training On MMU
Number 10/1980Open House; Big Michoud ET Contract
Number 11/1980External Tank Weight Reduction Program
Number 12/1980MST Modified For Titan 34D; MX Model
Number 13/1980Viking Mars Photomosaic
Number 14/1980MMU Training on TV; Shuttle Launch Pad Work
Number 15/1980External Tank Ice Debris Changes
Number 16/1980Employee Survey Results
Number 17/1980Benefits Of A Mission Success Orientation
Special Issue/1980Special 1980 Election Issue
1981
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1981MX Wind Tunnel Model; Shuttle Moves To Pad
Number 2/1981SV5-J Donated To AFA; SLC-6 Work
Number 3/1981Shuttle Test Firing Prepares For First Flight
Number 4/1981E-Mail Evaluation; First Shuttle Flight Scheduled
Number 5/1981First Space Shuttle Launch
Number 6/1981Shuttle Elements Perform With Near Perfection
Number 7/1981MX Transport Equipment Demonstrated
Number 8/1981Astronauts Young/Crippen Visit Michoud
Number 9/1981CCMS Installation At Vandenberg
Number 10/198125 Years of Denver Aerospace; Quality Circles
Number 11/1981Physicist Turns Blacksmith
Number 12/1981Preparation For Second Space Shuttle Launch
Number 13/1981New Professional Employee Orientation
Number 14/1981New Power Plant To Use Denver Solar Arrays
Number 15/198125th Anniversary Celebration; Venus Orbiter Bid
Number 16/1981Solar Power Plant Dedicated In Spain
Number 17/1981Shuttle Launch Like An 18-Story Castle Liftoff
Number 18/1981MM Acquires Michelin Property
Number 19/1981Saudi Solar Plant; First Titan 34D Test Scheduled
Number 20/19811981 In Review; Mission Success
1982
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1982New Facilities To Be Added In 1982
Number 2/1982Titan I Display Renewed In Florida
Number 3/1982Simulated MX Launched From Canister
Number 4/1982Denver To Study Venus Spacecraft Options
Number 5/1982Titan IIIC Makes Final Flight
Number 6/1982MX Vibration Tests Begin
Number 7/1982MX Moving Towards First Test Launch
Number 8/1982Hurtt Named Aerospace President
Number 9/1982Solar One Generates Electricity
Number 10/1982NASA Administrator Visits, Praises Michoud
Number 11/1982Titan On-Time Launch At Vandenberg
Number 12/1982Message Processing System For US Army
Number 13/1982Augustine Visits Michoud, Vandenberg
Number 14/1982Denver Aerospace Business Strong
Number 15/198290 Day Viking Mission Enters Sixth Year
Number 16/1982Employee’s Experiment On 1984 Shuttle Mission
Number 17/1982Space Station Study Contract
Number 18/1982CSB MX Proposal Goes To Air Force
Number 19/1982First Lightweight External Tank Rolls Out
Number 20/1982Solar Max Satellite Repair Mission Contract
Number 21/1982Satellite Servicing Definition Study Begins
Number 22/1982Titan 34D First Launch
Number 23/1982First Commercial Shuttle Is Picture Perfect
Number 24/1982MX Basing Mode Selected
Number 25/1982Space Launch Systems Records Mission Success
Special Issue/1982Family Day 1982
1983
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1983Christmas Blizzard of ’82 Aftermath
Number 2/1983Space Simulator Tested
Number 3/1983Galileo Instruments Delivered To NASA
Number 4/1983MM News Production Goes In-House, Electronic
Number 5/1983Peacekeeper Tests Proceeding At Vandenberg
Number 6/1983SLC-6 Nears Completion
Number 7/1983Lightweight Tank, Challenger Make First Flights
Number 8/1983Inventors Develop Power Modules
Number 9/1983Another Titan Success
Number 10/1983Business Is On Course, Augustine Reports
Number 11/1983Peacekeeper Is A Go; Small Missile Team In Place
Number 12/1983Viking I Ends Transmissions From Mars
Number 13/19833-for-3 In Successful Launches
Number 14/1983Data Conferencing; Authors Honored
Number 15/1983Titan Employees Earn “Thank You” Picnic
Number 16/1983Stabilizer Panels For B-1B Bomber
Number 17/1983Ice Suppression System Studied For Shuttle
Number 18/1983Satellite Tether Ready For Testing
Number 19/198318 Microcomputers Installed In Denver
Number 20/1983MILSTAR/ICBM Study Contract Awarded
Number 21/1983Peacekeeper Is 2-for-2
Number 22/1983Ada To Become Familiar Name
Number 23/1983CO Governor Dick Lamm “Flies” MMU
Number 24/1983Shuttle Takes Off With Spacelab
Number 25/1983Norm Augustine Looks Back At 1983
1984
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1984Titan II Being Retired After 20 Years
Number 2/1984First Space Test Of MMU Scheduled
Number 3/1984MMU Flies; 25th Anniversary Of Titan I
Number 4/1984Small ICBM Contract Awarded
Number 5/1984Reusable OTV To Cut Payload Costs
Number 6/1984Solar Max Repair Mission Scheduled
Number 7/1984McCandless Reiterates Praise Of MMU
Number 8/1984Company Goes After Major New Titan Contract
Number 9/1984Company Committed To Upper Stage Work
Number 10/1984Honors Night 1984
Number 11/1984Software Center Of Excellence
Number 12/1984OTV Contract Win; AF Orders Titan 34D
Number 13/1984Employee PC Purchase Plan
Number 14/1984Space Station Program Shifts Into High Gear
Number 15/1984Martin Marietta Info & Comm Systems Formed
Number 16/1984SRM Transporter At Home In California
Number 17/19841984 Family Open House Issue
Number 18/1984300th Titan Launched; MMU To Rescue Palapa
Number 19/1984Autonomous Land Vehicle Contract Signed
Number 20/1984Employee Survey Results
Number 21/1984MARCALL; NBC Alleges VAFB Shuttle Issues
Number 22/1984Peacekeeper Six-For-Six
Number 23/1984First Shuttle ET at Vandenberg
Number 24/1984Denver Aerospace Teams Up for Space Station
Number 25/1984Construction Completed At SLC-6
Number 26/1984Space Shuttle Averaging Six Miles Per Gallon
Number 27/1984Augustine Reflects on 1984
1985
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1985Titan/Centaur Selected By Air Force
Number 2/1985Denver Wins Mobile Launcher Study
Number 3/1985Augustine, Teets Promoted; Station Mockup
Number 4/1985Peacekeeper Emplacer Arrives At West Coast
Number 5/1985Air Force Selects Titan 34D-7 Design
Number 6/1985Company Wins Space Station Pact
Number 7/1985Company Funds Student’s Study On Shuttle
Number 8/1985Autonomous Land Vehicle Test Runs
Number 10/1985Martin Marietta, NASA Share Collier Trophy
Number 11/1985MARS Retirees Formed, Holds First Meeting
Number 12/1985ALV Demonstration Sets Milestone
Number 13/1985Martin Marietta Wins Small ICBM Contracts
Number 14/1985Comet Nucleus Penetrator System
Number 15/1985VAFB Prepares For Ninth Peacekeeper Launch
Number 16/1985New Award System To Spur Hiring Campaign
Number 17/1985Repair, Multiple Sat Deployments For Shuttle
Number 18/1985Workers Build Transtage In Record Time
Number 19/1985Hard Mobile Launcher Test Vehicle
Number 20/1985Antenna Tests Completed In Near Field Test Lab
Number 21/1985Groundwater Cleanup System Begins Operations
Number 22/1985New Smoking Policy For Denver Aerospace
Number 23/1985OMV Proposal In Progress
Number 24/1985NASA, AF Agree To Delay First VAFB Shuttle
Number 25/1985Teets Reviews Company’s Performance in 1985
Employee Survey Issue/1985Results of Employee Survey
Special Issue/1985Environmental Monitoring And Cleanup Program
1986
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1986Contract Signed For Titan II Conversion
Number 2/1986Challenger: In Memoriam
Number 3/1986Denver Aerospace Environmental Program
Number 4/1986Onizuka Scholarship Fund
Number 5/1986Peacekeeper 11 for 11 After Launch
Number 6/1986Titan II Launch Vehicle Conversion
Number 7/1986Transfer Orbit Stage For Mars Observer
Number 8/1986Titans Return
Number 9/1986Transtage Delivered
Number 10/1986Peacekeeper Scores Silo Success
Number 11/19861986 Annual Awards Night
Number 12/1986Radio Operators Test New Satellite
Number 13/1986ALV Sets New Records
Number 14/1986Space Launch Systems Begins Move
Number 15/1986Titan Missile Museum Opens This Fall
Number 16/1986Denver Aerospace Wins Phase I MLV
Number 17/1986Corporation Offers Titan II Commercial Launches
Number 18/1986FedEx Signs Launch Reservation On Titan III
Number 19/1986Hard Mobile Launcher
Number 20/1986United Way Campaign
Number 21/1986COR Audit
Number 22/1986Peacekeeper Emplacer Readied
Number 23/1986Titan Reassessment Assures Mission Success
Special Issue/1986Open House Special Issue
1987
Issue NumberHeadlines
Number 1/1987Glenn L. Martin: On A Wing And A Prayer
Number 2/1987Magellan Meets Major Milestone
Number 3/1987Rapid Retargeting Lab Key Element In SDI
Number 4/1987First Titan IV Barrel Welded
Number 5/1987Company Signs 10 Titan Pacts
Number 6/1987Magellan Spacecraft Test Successful
Number 7/1987CAE/CAD/CAM Section Of Project Challenge
Number 8/1987Canaveral, Vandenberg Safety Records
Number 9/1987Commercial Titan Systems
Number 10/1987Titan III Selected For JCSAT-2 Launch
Number 11/1987Simulator Built To Study Atomic Oxygen
Number 12/1987Titan Tradition Lives On With Titan IV
Number 13/1987Teets: Reorganization Will Enhance Growth
Number 14/1987ARGES Developed To Predict Station Issues
Number 15/1987Company Delivers Space Station Proposal
Number 16/1987First Refurbished Titan II Unveiled
Number 17/1987Last Titan II Missile Deactivated
Number 18/1987Space Based Interceptor
Number 21/1987Titan IV Payload Fairing Tested
Number 22/1987Titan Puts US Back Into Space Launch Business
Number 24/1987NASA Contract To Study Space Robot
Number 25/19871987 Year End Issue
Special Issue 1/19871987 Awards Night Honorees
Special Issue 2/1987President Reagan Visits Martin Marietta
1988
Issue NumberHeadlines
Issue 1/1988First Titan IV Space Launch Vehicle Rollout
Issue 2/1988First Titan IV Arrives At Canaveral
Issue 3/1988Mars – Past And Future Missions
Issue 4/1988Titan IV Motor Tested
Issue 5/1988Mars – Simulating Landing
Issue 6/1988Magellan – Testing Continues On Schedule
Issue 7/1988Technologies Of The Future
Issue 8/1988Small ICBM Launch System Tested
Issue 9/1988Titan IV Second Stage Assembly Continues
Issue 10/1988Interceptor Technology Demonstration Slated
Issue 11/1988First Titan IV Assembly Rolls To Launch Complex
Issue 12/1988NASA Awards Another Shuttle ET Contract
Issue 13/1988Martin/McDonnell Douglas Team Up on ALS
Issue 14/1988Magellan Begins Thermal Vacuum Tests
Issue 17/1988Shuttle Prepares To Resume Flight
Issue 18/1988Company Chosen For Phase II ALS Work
Issue 19/1988Titans Launched From Both Coasts
Issue 23/1988First Commercial Titan Progresses
Issue 24/1988Small ICBM Shroud Test A Success
Issue 25/1988Emplacer Modifications Finish Ahead Of Schedule
Issue 27/1988Commercial Titans To Boost Hughes 601s
Special Issue/19881988 Awards Night Honorees
1989
Issue NumberHeadlines
Issue 2/1989Small ICBM Program Progresses
Issue 3/1989COR Audit
Issue 4/1989Facilitators Ready For COR
Issue 5/1989Action Planning Feedback
Issue 6/1989Magellan Mated To Upper Stage
Issue 7/198918th Peacekeeper Launch A Success
Issue 8/1989Commercial Titan Progresses Toward Launch
Issue 9/1989Employees Say Magellan ‘More Than A Job’
Issue 10/1989Vote Yes On New Denver Airport
Issue 11/1989Magellan On Its Way To Venus
Issue 12/1989Tethered Satellite Simulation Test Bad
Issue 13/1989Titan IV Blasts Off From Cape
Issue 14/1989Company Captures Corporate Games
Issue 15/1989Space Transfer Vehicle Study
Issue 16/1989The Prophets Of Quality Part III
Issue 17/1989TQM Is Here To Stay
Issue 18/1989Voyager Meets Neptune
Issue 19/1989Titans Launched From Both Coasts
Issue 20/1989Space-Based Interceptor Work Continues
Issue 21/1989Galileo Ready For 6-Year Jupiter Trip
Issue 22/1989Titan II Has New Look, Missions
Issue 23/1989First TQM Symposium
Issue 24/1989Commercial Titan Moves To Pad
Issue 25/1989Work Continues On Flight Telerobotic Servicer
Issue 26/19891989: A Year Of Mission Success
Special Issue: Magellan/1989Magellan Deployment
Special Issue: Open House/19891989 Open House
Special Issue: Awards Night/19891989 Awards Night Honorees
1990
Issue NumberHeadlines
Issue 1/1990First Commercial Titan Lifts Off At Cape
Issue 2/1990Inventors Honored For Acoustic Simulator
Issue 3/1990New ALS Concepts Proposed
Issue 4/1990Mars Lander Studied
Issue 5/1990Intelsat VI Set For Commercial Titan Ride
Issue 6/1990Cultural Diversity Training
Issue 7/1990Astronautics Group Shows Off
Issue 8/1990Hubble: The Search Begins
Issue 9/1990Astronautics Group Gets Big Q Award
Issue 10/1990Magellan Mission Bulletin
Issue 11/1990Satellite Servicer System Study Contract
Issue 12/1990Second Titan IV A Success
Issue 13/1990Commercial Titan Delivers
Issue 14/1990Tethered Satellite Enters Final Testing
Issue 15/1990Magellan Spacecraft To Reach Venus
Issue 16/1990Magellan Arrives At Venus
Issue 16/1990 CenterfoldAnticipation…Getting Close…Success!
Issue 17/1990Magellan Sends Back First Pictures
Issue 18/1990Employees Dig Colorado Trail
Issue 19/1990Space Systems Busy With NASA Projects
Issue 20/1990Professional Options For Engineers
Special Issue/19901990 Awards Night Honorees

Astronautics Group News

1990
Issue NumberHeadlines
Issue 1/1990Newsletter Has New Look, Approach
Issue 2/1990Group Outlines Environmental Goals
Issue 3/1990Civil Space Systems Company Formed
Special Issue/1990Highlights of 1990

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