Nike Cajun Rocket photos







(NASA photo courtesy of Joel Powell)
This Nike Cajun was launched from pad 43 at Cape Canaveral for a mostly-classified project called Project TRUMP (a radiation monitoring program to support more elaborate TRUMP launches at Eglin AFB in 1963-64).

(NASA photo courtesy of Joel Powell)
Another TRUMP photo. There were reportedly six TRUMP launches at pad 43.

The DAN rocket at White Sands (note one of the Aerobee towers) which became known as the Nike Cajun. The date is August 7, 1956 (US Army Photo courtesy Joel Powell).

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