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By Docto & SaxRunner on 27-Sep-02. Waypoint GC9422

I really wish I knew what kind of USAF missile this is, it's been on display in this Veteren's Memorial Park in Presque Isle, Maine, USA for many many years. Anybody know? Let me know!

This Polaris II rocket/missile is located at a static display outside Point Mugu Naval Air Station in CA. It was used by the Navy for many years, and was actually designed to be launched from submarines. Pictures will follow as soon as I return to work and can access them from the computer there (home computer NOT cooperating!)...

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P-21 / P-22 Styx Missile at Battleship Cove
Displayed with [url=http://www.battleshipcove.org/hiddensee-history.htm]Hiddensee[/url]
Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

This P-21 / P-22 Styx Missile is representative of those used on Russian Corvettes such as the Hiddensee which is displayed at Battleship Cove. While the Styx missile is not capable of achieving orbit, it could deliver a warhead of 1000 lbs to a range of nearly 100 kilometers.

Thanks for the cache!

This is a copy of the Space Shuttle located at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. Thanks for the cache.

Space Shuttle Replica - Calgary International Airport

We found a replica of the Space Shuttle on our trip through the Calgary Airport on Monday evening. The replica is quite real looking and gives the viewer a sense of the size of the real shuttle. TFTH.

We found it in Sinsheim, Germany.

Neanderwolf und die Meute

This is a cool cache to do, and one that I will add to with notes since you can only log it once! I work on rockets for a major aerospace company and was visiting one of the best suppliers (Orbital) in the world in Arizona today. They are located off of Price Rd in Chandler. Got permission from the guard and took pictures of a static missile outside used in high altitude and exo-atmospheric research for NASA. Also took pictures of static displayed rockets that are scaled models (except one). All are included for your viewing pleasure. Hope to have a picture to upload of a GMD fly out from FT-1 or 2 as well in the future! Thank you for a very thoughtful cache!

This rocket (Thor PGM 17) is in the UK’s National Space Centre in Leicester. The co-ordinates were taken on the forth floor inside the building as near as possible to the rockets.

Thor Able Rockets launched several satellites between 1959 and 1960. The best known is TIROS-1 the world first weather satellite.
Thor rockets were used until 1980, teamed with other upper stages and boosters.
Thor was the ancestor of modern Delta rockets.

Whilst drving through Wilmington in South Australia, we came accross the rocket in the front yard of a farm house. We believe there is a duplicate of this in Woomera rocket range in Northern South Australia.

This is the Saturn V at NASA Johnson Space Center. It was scheduled to be used for an actual Moon Mission but this flight was scrubbed near the end of the Lunar Program due to budget problems. Too bad.
It is on static display now and being refurbished to preserve for the future.

This is Black Brant Rocket 9.
The rocket is at the Canadian space agency in St-Hubert,Province of Quebec, Canada.

I found a shuttle of the United States of America which is on permanent display underground (15th district of Vienna, Austria), together with a plane, parts of a train and other means of movement.

It was hard to get close to it because it is behind glass but one can "drive" by with an elevator which makes it very difficult to take pictures. I went up and down a couple of times without success for clear photos until I decided to press the emergency button (I will not do that again!).

Beutelteufelweibchen

Found this old Redsstone missle in front of the Atomic Museum just outside Old Town in Albuquerque, NM. According to the sign, it was used in one of the first sub-orbital flights in the early 1960's. How times have changed!

Clearly, this wasn't a manned rocket - there wasn't any signage describing exactly what it is. Maybe an ICBM from a nuke sub? Naw, they gotta be bigger. At any rate, this rocket is location in Alden park in the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, near Vallejo, CA.

out at the pumpkin patch today and guess what was in the middle, the space shuttle discovery! it cost $4 for the ride, but my 3 year old loved it, thanks for the fun cache!

arianne rocket foundin in Laval on hightway 15,Quebec,Canada

Saturn V F-1 rocket engine
Pratt & Whitney: Rocketdyne Division.

Find #214. I'm really surprised that this got overlooked for so long. It's a prominent landmark in this part of town.

Five F-1 engines powered the first stage of the most powerful operating rocket in history -- the Mighty Saturn 5. The Saturn V carried humans to the moon during the Apollo program of the 1960's and 70's. Together they lifted a vehicle weighing over 6 million pounds!

Rocketdyne has built the majority of engines for the US space program (including the Shuttle), as well as those for numerous military projects.

This is a photo of a Polaris ICBM Britains nuclear deterant carried on some Royal Navy Submarines, it can be found on display at RAF Cosford musuem in Shropshire UK.

This is the memorial dedicated Col (USAF) Ellison Onizuka and the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger that exploded in January 1986. It's located in the Little Tokyo section of downtown Los Angeles, California. (near NW corner of San Pedro & 2nd Streets). That's my 76 yr old dad w/GPS.

5th FLOOR, WORLD MUSEUM, WILLIAM BROWN STREET, LIVERPOOL,UK

Went looking for a Meteorite and found a pair of rockets.
ASTRIS - 3rd stage rocket for the Europe 2 Satelite Launcher, and a full sized Black Knight Rocket.

The museum is free, and its well worth a visit

TFTC - PhilPamandRob

Located within the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester, this is one of 300 skylark rockets used for astronomical research.

Full details

http://www.star.le.ac.uk/rockets/skylark.shtml

This rocket is just a few meters from my office so was an easy find.

[Photo to follow later today]

This rocket is outside the Museam of Science and Technology in Skinner Street, Pretoria, South Africa. The museaum is a great place to take the kids.

Found this Apollo test capsule at the Meteor Crater near Winslow AZ. It was used to test flotation and recovery equipment. Sure looks like it would be close quarters for three astronauts inside.

I saw the Nike rocket at the Nike launch site in the Marin Headlands, north of San Francisco. It is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and is open three days a week as a museum showing what the old bases were like. And then, even more intriguing, we were driving around nearby San Rafael looking for something else, and came across this old capsule that appears to be part of NASA's Gemini program from the 79th Aerospace division. It was in a center for developmental disabilities and I have no idea what it is doing there.

This is the RSA-3 rocket on display in the South African Air Force Museum in Pretoria, South Africa. It never flew the flight that it was intended for, because the project got canned. It was intended to put a satelite in orbit around the earth. See the pictures of the three stages. Much more details are available at

http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/lvs/rsa3.htm

and

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/rsa3.htm

This is the actual Space Shuttle Enterprise at the The National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. I had previously logged a mock up so I'll change that to a note. I was very surprised how big these are in person, about twice the size I had imagined. Very very impressive. There are many other space capsules and rockets in the museum that are unlogged. Thanks!

Arianne Space Rocket, located at Laval Cosmodome Space Camp and Center on Laurentian Autoroute 15 in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec, Canada.
It's purpose was to put mostly communication satellites in orbit around the blue planet.

This Minuteman 2 missile is located in the parking lot of the Fargo Air Museum in Fargo, ND. A relic of the cold war, this missile was capable of intercontinental flight.

Part of Project Gemeni at the OMSI in Portland Oregon

This rocket, first trialed in 1958 and codenamed “Black Knight†is on display at the Rocket Park in Woomera, South Australia. Black Knight was a vehicle designed to provide high-speed re-entry to various warheads. The second stage, mounted upside down, thrust the re-entry head downwards to typical ballistic speeds

This is a great display of several aircraft and missiles located just outside of the Naval Weapons Test Squadron base in Pt. Magu, California. This nice little rest spot along Pacific Coast Highway is also a location of a fun virtual cache. Once upon a time there was an actual cache here, but the MPs convinced several finders it was a bad idea to be wandering in the bushes so close to the fence line

This missile is a "Chinese Dongfeng-2 Missile", according to the accompanying plaque. The remainder of the plaque is in Chinese, so that is all the history I can provide. However, I've included a photo of the plaque for the Chinese speakers out there. You can get an idea of the size by comparing with the car parked next to it. It's part of an exhibit at the Chinese People's Revolutionary Military Museum, in Beijing, China.

This is the first stage of the EUROPE Launcher ("Blue Streak"). I found it in the aerodrome of the "Deutsches Museum" (German Technical Museum) in Munich. The EUROPE Launcher program was quite a failure: None of the launches was satisfactory.

Right beside the "Blue Streak" was a real part of the Ariane V.

Dunno if that one counts as a found so I post a note. It's real size model of an esa satellite but unfortunately I couldn't find out which one There wasn't anything around telling what it is.

Found what remains of this rocket out the front of the Sandfire Roadhouse, in north Western Australia.
It's the motor section of a rocket launched during the DUNDEE Project missile detection test. I recognised it pretty quickly as part of a rocket, and was stoked as you don't generally find anything like this in WA!
What you can see in the photo is the remains of a Terrier MK-12 solid rocket motor (first stage).

Information:
Australia and the United States conducted a series of joint scientific experiments in September 1997 to investigate early detection of theater ballistic missile launches. The 1997 Australia-US sensor experiment was known as DUNDEE (Down UNDer Early-warning Experiment).

There were no ballistic missiles--dummy or otherwise--in this experiment. Four Terrier-Orion tactical surface-to-air rockets, modified to have a radar cross-section equivalent to a typical theatre ballistic missile were fired out to sea from a coastal launch site. They were not aimed at anything other than a patch of sea and nothing was fired at them. The sole purpose of the experiment was to test a range of sensors, including the Jindalee over-the-horizon radar at Alice Springs. The rockets were not equipped to carry warheads--they were simply targets for the sensors.

The project tested the capacity of a range of terrestrial and space-based sensors, including Australia’s Jindalee over-the-horizon radar—developed by DSTO—to detect the launch of simulated theatre ballistic missiles. It was the major trial in 1997 involving DSTO’s Wide Area Surveillance Division—formerly High Frequency Radar Division. No anti-missile weapons were fired or tested during the project because the objective is to test the capabilities of sensors, not weapons. The Australian Government had indicated that it has no intention to develop a theater ballistic missile defence system.

The project team fired four "dummy" missiles, modified US Terrier-Improved-Orion rockets, about 100 kilometers out to sea from a Defence Practice Area on the coast of northwest Australia between Broome and Port Hedland from 1-14 September. As in other live firing exercises, air, land and sea access to this Defence Practice Area was closed to the public for safety reasons.

The US Terrier-Improved-Orion rocket is a reconfiguration of tried and tested US rocket technology. Its purpose is solely to be a sensor target, simulating theatre ballistic missiles, for the range of sensors which will gather data in Project DUNDEE. The rocket comprises a Terrier MK-12 solid rocket motor (first stage), an improved dual thrust Orion solid rocket motor (second stage), and a 7.32 meter steel forebody extension containing a beacon for satellite tracking purposes. Total target length is 13.95 meters.

The Terrier Mk-12 solid rocket booster was developed for the US Navy Terrier surface-to-air missile system. This motor burns for 5.2 seconds at high thrust to provide maximum velocity at rail exit, increasing vehicle spin rate and stability. On burnout, the motor separates from the target and impacts the earth within 5km of the launch point.

The Improved Orion solid rocket motor was developed for US Marine Corps defence systems. This motor contains both a high thrust booster grain propellant and a sustainer propellant for a total burn time of 25.4 seconds. Upon burnout, the motor remains attached to the forebody and maintain a ballistic flight path to impact, approximately 117km down range.

The DUNDEE targets were designed to provide a 10-meter target section and maximum burnout altitude for the Jindalee Facility Alice Springs (JFAS). Target burnout occurs at approximately 40km altitude at a velocity of 1.65km/sec.