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Jupiter Missile

            Virginia Museum of Transportation

Jupiter Missile 
Jupiter was the United States' first intermediate-range ballistic missile. In December 1955, the Army and Navy announced a dual program to create a land and sea-based intermediate-range ballistic missile. The Jupiter IRBM was designed as a short missile to ease handling aboard ships. At the end of 1956, the IRBM program was transferred to the U.S. Air Force. 

The Jupiter missile was used in a series of sub-orbital test flights. The most famous of these was a biological test flight conducted on May 29, 1959. An American-born rhesus monkey named "Able" and a South American squirrel monkey named "Baker" rode in the nosecone of the missile to an altitude of 360 miles and at a top speed of 10,000 miles per hour. Both monkeys survived the flight in good condition and proved that living creatures could pass through space and return safely to earth. 

The Jupiter missile on exhibit is 67 feet tall and weighs 11 tons (22,000 pounds) stripped of its internal equipment.

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Taken in: United States / Virginia / Roanoke (show map)

Taken on: April 20, 2023

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PGM-19

Jupiter

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Sets appears in: • Virginia Museum of Transportation • PGM-19 Jupiter Nuclear Missile

Camera: Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II, f/5.6, 1/1250 sec, 8.8mm, ISO 125 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/1250)
Focal Length:	8.8mm
ISO:	125
Exposure Bias:	+1 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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