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Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Museum
Photographer: Bill Kirchner
Taken: 1
Caption: Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Museum
Additional Description:
View down silo at Titan II
Note the large rectangular hole in the ablative heat shield material. The hole has been added under the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) Agreement to show this system cannot be launched without overheating and destroying itself upon re-entering the atmosphere.
Submitted: January 27, 2010, by Bill Kirchner of Tucson, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p94282
File Size: 2.735 Megabytes

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