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Glenn L. Martin Company, Titan Missile Test Facilities, Captive Test Stand D-2, Waterton Canyon Road & Colorado Highway 121, Lakewood, Jefferson County, CO

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Significance: By providing a facility where the Titan I and Titan II intercontinental ballistic missiles could be "flown on the ground" under controlled conditions prior to actual launch, Captive Test Stand D-2 played a key role in the development of the largest and most destructive weapons in the American nuclear deterrent force.

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1969 - 1980
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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

label_outline Explore Captive Test, Titan Missile Test Facilities, Waterton Canyon Road

Keystone Bridge, Spanning South Platte River, Waterton, Jefferson County, CO

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Air Force Plant PJKS, Systems Integration Laboratory, Components Test Laboratory, Waterton Canyon Road & Colorado Highway 121, Lakewood, Jefferson County, CO

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Andrew Jackson to Martin Company, January 22, 1836

Glenn L. Martin Company, Titan Missile Test Facilities, Captive Test Stand D-4, Waterton Canyon Road & Colorado Highway 121, Lakewood, Jefferson County, CO

Titan One Missile Complex 2A, .3 miles west of 129 Road and 1.5 miles north of County Line Road, Aurora, Adams County, CO

A left front view of several vehicle-mounted Soviet Frog tactical rockets

Flying Boat at North Island, Space and Aviation museum SDASM

Workers survey the remains of a Titan II missile silo of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing, which has been deactivated. The circular field of debris is left in place for a Soviet verification team

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Converted from the production of such items as soft drink dispensers and game boards, this Eastern manufacturing firm now produces precision tools for cartridge manufacture, brass quadrants and other essentials for the armed forces. Personnel has jumped from 12 to 76 workers. In this machine shop different types of measuring gauges, bullet tools, dies and punches for use in America's arsenals are produced. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

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testing laboratories rockets lakewood glenn l martin martin company titan missile test facilities titan missile test facilities captive captive test waterton canyon waterton canyon road colorado highway colorado highway jefferson county historic american engineering record photo ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress