I had the chance to visit the amazing Northrop Grumman Rocket Garden in Corinne UT during a road trip in Fall 2026
UGM-96 Trident
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LGM-30A Minuteman 1
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Minuteman Stage 1
Miniteman Stage 1 Inert
Minuteman Stage 2
MIM-104 Patriot
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SM-2 Missile
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TX-664-3 Mk 70 for SM2
Space Shuttle RSRM
Reusable Solid Rocket Motor
TU-772 Solid Rocket Motor Segment
Aftmost section of the Space Shuttle booster
Note the size compared to Mitchell
Space Shuttle Booster Separation Motor
Used for pushing the RSRM away from the Space Shuttle’s main liquid fuel tank
Matador Booster
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Matador Booster Fiberglass
Peacekeeper Stage 1
Developed by Thiokol for the LGM-188 Peacekeeper ICBM
STAR 30BP Apogee Motor
Stabilizes communications satellites in geosynchronous orbits
5-inch Test Motor
TX-10 XM-10 Lacrosse
Solid propellant rocket motor for the Army’s Lacrosse Missile.
TX-14 Big B “The Klunker”
1950s test vehicle for the US Army Ballistic Missile Agency
TX-20 Re-Entry Test Vehicle Booster
First stage for the X-17 re-entry vehicle.
TX-30 Nike Hercules
Sustainer motor for the Nike Hercules Missile
TX-33 Polaris Booster
Booster for the Polaris submarine-launched ICBM
TX-33 Polaris Sustain
TX-38 SPARM
Developed for the US Air Force in the 1960s
TX-59 Hawk
Dual-chamber motor for the HAWK missile program
TX-140 Hermes RVA 10
Developed for the Hermes A-2 missile program.
TX-239 Spartan third stage
Originally designed for the Zeus missile in the 1950s
TX-454 Spartan Sustain
Used in the 1975-76 Spartan anti-ballistic missiles, designed in the 1960s to protect Minuteman ICBM sites against attack. The Spartan missiles were destroyed in 1983.
TX-500 Spartan Booster
Had the highest thrust level of any solid propellant motor at the time.
TX-526-2 Castor IV
Strap on booster for the Atlas IIAS launch system
TX-683-12 Sidewinder
Reduced smoke propulsion system for the AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile
TX-772 motor for TOW 2
Propulsion for the BGM-71 TOW guided missile
TX-773 Hellfire
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