Talk:Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition/@comment-27024938-20151011104407/@comment-77.99.103.218-20170530003847

The Titan family of rockets were, along with Atlas, the first American ICBM's. They were retired in the 1960's in favour of Atlas which would also eventually be retired in favour of Peacekeeper and then Minuteman, though Titan II rockets were still used as recently as 2003 to launch satelites for the Air Force from their base of operations at Vandenburg AFB. Titan II's were also the launch vehicle for the Gemini program of manned space missions which preceded the Apollo program.

From that I reckon Arcaedia is right, I think Warren Spector dreamt up taking JC in to space and then decided to keep the storyline less fantastic and more grounded. Pun intended.