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  2. Titan Missile Museum - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Missile launch control center - Wikipedia

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    A guide (right) conducts a tour of the Launch Control Center at the Titan Missile Museum. A launch control center (LCC), in the United States, is the main control facility for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). A launch control center monitors and controls missile launch facilities.

  4. Sahuarita, Arizona - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. National Historic Landmark - Wikipedia

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    The Titan Missile Museum in Tucson, Arizona, a National Historic Landmark. In 1960, the National Park Service took on the administration of the survey data gathered under this legislation, and the National Historic Landmark program began to take more formal shape. [4]

  6. LGM-25C Titan II - Wikipedia

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    A single Titan II complex belonging to the former strategic missile wing at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base escaped destruction after decommissioning and is open to the public as the Titan Missile Museum at Sahuarita, Arizona. The missile resting in the silo is a real Titan II, but was a training missile and never contained fuel, oxidizer, or a ...

  7. South Dakota Air and Space Museum - Wikipedia

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    In 2017 the museum dedicated a Titan I missile on display in the outdoor airpark. [16] In 2019, the museum partnered with the Commemorative Air Force to fly a B-25 across the state to recognize the two South Dakotans who participated in the Doolittle Raid. [17] A model of an AGM-158 missile was placed on display in 2022. [18]

  8. Veterans column: Sgt. David Livingston volunteers for ...

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    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 ...

  9. Titan (rocket family) - Wikipedia

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    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.