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The Titan Missile Museum, also known as Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 or as Titan II ICBM Site 571-7, is a former ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) site located about 40 km (25 mi) [3] south of Tucson, Arizona in the United States. It was constructed in 1963 and deactivated in 1984.
The surviving N-10, AF Ser. No. 61-2738/60-6817 resides in the silo at the Titan Missile Museum (ICBM Site 571–7), operated by the Pima Air & Space Museum at Green Valley, south of Tucson, Arizona, on Interstate-19. [39] Twelve Titan-II Gemini Launch Vehicles (GLVs) were produced.
Green Valley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Pima County, ... Green Valley is home to the Titan Missile Museum, [16] ...
Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 (571-7) Military Reservation. December 3, 1992 1580 W. Duval Mine Rd. ... Green Valley: Titan Missile Museum: 4: Ajo Townsite ...
Sahuarita contains the Titan Missile Museum, built in 1963 during the height of the Cold War, which is the only Titan Missile site in the world accessible to the public. The actual Titan II missile, the most powerful nuclear missile on standby in the US, remains in the silo for visitors to see.
The silo at Green Valley (571-7) was retained by the Air Force and leased to local government for use as the "Titan Missile Museum." With a training Titan II missile in place, the silo is maintained by a dedicated organization of volunteers from nearby retirement communities. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as ...
Green Valley: 21,391 CDP 9 Tanque Verde: 16,901 CDP 10 Flowing Wells: 16,419 CDP 11 ... Titan Missile Museum; Pima Air and Space Museum; Mission San Xavier del Bac;
Most of the Titan rockets were the Titan II ICBM and their civilian derivatives for NASA.The Titan II used the LR-87-5 engine, a modified version of the LR-87, that used a hypergolic propellant combination of nitrogen tetroxide (NTO) for its oxidizer and Aerozine 50 (a 50/50 mix of hydrazine and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) instead of the liquid oxygen and RP-1 propellant of the Titan I.