Minuteman National Park 2007

This is the last Minuteman Missile in South Dakota. The warhead has been removed. There are still hundreds of active silos in other states.

When security personnel needed to travel between launch control facilities, the airbase and silos, they rode in this. It is as spartan on the inside as one might imagine. Rose poses for a photo.

This multi ton door is the entrance to the missile crew's capsule, where they would sit with their "finger on the button".

24 hour shifts get pretty dull, so one of the crews installed a nice hi-fi system

This is the crew commander's position. It has lots more indicator lights, but again, very few actual switches. On the right side you can see the slot for the key, just under the number "60". Taped above the panel is a piece of paper where they could write the names of the support crew working on the surface. The cook's name was "Austin".

Here is the complete crew capsule. 2 crew members would spend 24 hours per shift here. Most of the panels between the two chairs are status indicators, or communication devices.