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Martin Marietta

Legacy Aerospace and Defense Conglomerates

The Martin Marietta Corporation was an American aerospace and defense company formed in 1961 through the merger of the Glenn L. Martin Company and the American-Marietta Corporation, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. It built the Titan family of rockets, the Atlas I and II launch vehicles, and the Space Shuttle's external tank, and it built the Magellan, Viking 1 and 2, Mars Polar Lander and Wind spacecraft for NASA. Martin Marietta merged with the Lockheed Corporation in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Agency Type
American corporation (aerospace and defense manufacturing) 1
Founded Year
1961 1
Headquarters
Bethesda, Maryland 1
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1. Wikipedia: Martin Marietta
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence
    was an American company founded in 1961 through the
  • History section, first sentence
    Martin Marietta formed in 1961 by the merger of the
  • Infobox, hq_location_city field
    hq_location_city = Bethesda, Maryland
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