VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) — As the final Titan II rocket streaked skyward from here Oct. 18, it left in its wake a 40-year history that included a transformation from intercontinental ...
Today, I visited the Titan Missile Museum in Southern Arizona. This is a real Titan II missile installation that has been deactivated and converted to a museum. The missile was operational for about ...
or, "yet another vacation picture thread". This time its of the Titan Missile Museum near Tuscon, AZ. Its a preserved Titan II missile silo. I went on the "omg supar special!" director's tour. The ...
Ever wanted to touch a nuclear missile? Yvonne Morris, the director of the Titan Missile Museum outside Tucson, conducts a monthly tour of the Titan II missile facility. A leftover from the Cold War, ...
LONDONDERRY — What was it like to serve on a launch crew at a Titan II missile site during the height of the Cold War? As a young U.S. Air Force officer in the 1960s, Carl Stidsen commanded a four-man ...
The disaster in Searcy killed 53 men in 1965. Dr. Jason Ulsperger wanted to examine the impact of long-term grief and how it impacted families generationally. The Arkansas Tech sociology professor ...
"Disaster at Silo 7" was a 1988 television movie about a missile accident at a U.S. Air Force Titan II launch complex. The incident in the movie was similar to the explosion that occurred at Launch ...
A single dropped socket wrench tore through the skin of a Titan II missile and unleashed a toxic fuel leak that spiraled into chaos. As fumes filled the silo, crews scrambled blindly through ...