Air Force Plant PJKS, Systems Integration Laboratory, Long-Term Hydrazine Silo, Waterton Canyon Road & Colorado Highway 121, Lakewood, Jefferson County, CO
Summary
Significance: It played a significant role in the development of the Titan II ICBM, which not only served as the largest and most destructive weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War, but also functioned as a launch vehicle for the Gemini space program in 1965. The structure was designed to assess long-term environmental impacts of storage of the missile's fuel as part of the complex that was constructed to test, handle, and store the Titan II's fuel system propellants...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N495
Survey number: HAER CO-88-F
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Lakewood, 39.68647, -105.08153
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html