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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 museum's displays include Stafford's Apollo 10 spacesuit, the Gemini 6A spacecraft, artifacts from the Space Shuttle program, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mir Space Station, a Moon rock, a Titan II missile, a Mark 6 re-entry vehicle, and a collection of over 20 historic aircraft. [1] [2] The museum is located at the Thomas P. Stafford ...
Gemini 6A space capsule at the Stafford Air & Space Museum. The 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m 2) Stafford Air & Space Museum is home to the Gemini 6A spacecraft, an actual Titan II missile, WWII V-2 rocket, Saturn V F-1 engine as well as flown space suits, flight equipment, Space Shuttle engines, and a Moon rock.
Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson; Titan Missile Museum, Sahuarita; Wingspan Air Heritage Foundation, Mesa [35] ... Oklahoma City; Oklahoma Museum of Flying, Bethany;
Each silo housed a Titan II missile that was part of the United States defense system. The missiles were equipped with a nuclear warhead that was 600 times more powerful than the bombs dropped at ...
There were 11 prisoners of war base camps, 22 POW branch camps, 3 POW hospitals, 3 enemy alien internment camps and 4 POW cemeteries in Oklahoma during World War II. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] [ 40 ] On July 1, 1961, the 577th Strategic Missile Squadron was activated at Altus Air Force Base and established twelve missile silo sites in a 40-mile radius ...
This list of museums in Oklahoma encompasses museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The facilities represent the only remaining intact components of a nuclear missile field that once consisted of 150 Minuteman II missiles, 15 launch-control centers, and covered over 13,500 square miles (35,000 km 2) of southwestern South Dakota. [4] The silo, known as launch facility Delta Nine (D-09) was constructed in 1963.