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This volatile chemical production complex was built in a remote valley near Cedar City in 1989, following a devastating explosion of the company's plant in Henderson, Nevada in 1988. It is owned by American Pacific Corporation (Ampac), a company based in Las Vegas....
Thiokol builds NASA’s space shuttle rocket boosters at this isolated facility near the Promontory Mountains. Other defense and propulsions systems are developed and tested here by Thiokol, on this major R&D and production site, part of which was once designated as...
A munitions, propulsion, composites, and explosives development and manufacturing complex located on a hill surrounded by the suburbs of southwest Salt Lake City. Alliant Tech Systems, based in Minnesota, acquired the large and diversified facility, which makes up most...
A rocket test facility built by Hercules Inc. in 1976, on the Gosuite Indian Reservation, in remote Skull Valley, in northern Utah. Later operated by AlliantTech Systems (ATK), which bought Hercules, along with its primary rocket facility near Magna, Utah, in the early...
In 1893, California Powder Works moved its black powder production from Santa Cruz to this then remote area, up the shore from the new Giant Powder Works plant. The company was later renamed Hercules, one of the first companies to be formed by judicial decree, as part...
Once one of the largest ammunition plants in the country, Badger is being cleaned up and prepared for transition to civilian use. Operated by Olin Industries for much of its recent life, Badger manufactured primarily smokeless powder and small rocket propellant. It was...
The Exell Helium Plant is the last remaining government helium plant, in an area that in the 1960's produced 95% of the World's recoverable helium. Exell began production in 1943, producing helium for air ships during World War Two. It was operated by the Federal...
Coyote Springs is a large and remote housing development, an hour north of Las Vegas, surrounded by empty desert. The development has been controversial, due to its size, originally estimated to be occupied by 50,000 people by 2008, has been stalled, and is only...
NASA's principal rocket propulsion testing center, employing approximately 3,500 people. Stennis Space Center occupies nearly 14,000 acres and is surrounded by a 125,828-acre acoustical buffer zone. It boasts a seven and one-half-mile, man-made Panama Canal-type lock...
Orbital Science Corporation's Launch Systems Group has a major facility here in Chandler, a high-tech suburb of Phoenix, near an Intel Plant and the Iridium Satellite phone center. Orbital, based in Dulles, Virginia, has built more than 500 satellite launch vehicles,...
The Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) is a vast military area in northern Utah, the nation's largest combined restricted land and closed "special use" airspace area. It consists of over 19,000 square miles of restricted airspace with 2,675 miles of ground space. On...
Rocket motors were produced in this now abandoned industrial complex during World War II and into the 1950's. In the production buildings, heavy walls of cement separated the assembly alcoves from one another, with a shared glass wall to permit an explosion to escape...
These buildings on the edge of the Seal Beach Weapons Station in Orange County, until recently belonged to the Rockwell Corporation, and are now part of Boeings Space R...
A nuclear energy R...
Until recently, when the corporate HQ was moved to Virginia, ATK was headquartered in this building in the suburbs of Minneapolis. ATK is a military products company that specializes in the full range of projectiles, from bullets to ballistic missiles. Also known as...
The main site for Lockheed Martin's Astronautics division is a 5,400-acre industrial site, with numerous production, test, and space simulation facilities, and over 70 laboratories. The Astronautics division designs and manufactures space launch vehicles, such as Titan...
Los Alamos National Lab is one of the three principal diversified Department of Energy nuclear research and development labs, along with Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs. It employs around 12,000 people, occupies 43 square miles and consumes over two...