This rocket is on display at the Palm Springs Air Museum

[brockrwood]

According to the plaque, this rocket (and the sign) are a recreation of the rocket and sign at the entrance to the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. This recreation is on display outside at the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, CA.

Is the rocket at the Tonopah Test Range entrance a real rocket? If so, I wonder what it is?

 

[krislhull]

If my memory is correct, it is not a configuration that was flown at all. I believe the rocket on display at the turn off for the TTR is a Terrier booster with a B-57 gravity bomb shape on top. It is documented in a book somewhere (I want to say it was in Phil Patton's Dreamland) . I do know that Peter Merlin, a NASA historian at Edwards, and a treasure trove of knowledge on all things Area 51, Tonopah, and black projects, is the one who said that, as he repeated it to me a few years ago when I was talking with him about the test range.