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Whiteman Air Force Base, Knob Knoster, MO. Minuteman Missle Silo Tour Click on each photo for a larger image. | |
 An inauspicious start with heavy rain, in Kansas City. |
 At the Whiteman Visitor Reception Center, Whiteman AFB. |
 Entrance to the only missle control center on the base itself. |
 This end of the building houses the elevator that takes you 45 feet down to the command center. One of these house-like buildings occupied each of the 15 command centers in north-west Missouri. |
 MSgt Roger Hooker guides our tour. On the map you see the 15 command flights, each controlling 10 Minuteman missles. The colored area at the top left is Kansas City. |
 The 8 ton blast door leading to the command modules, with service being to our left and the command/control module to the right, behind another door. |
 In the mid-tunnel, with the command center door on our right. |
 Within the service module, with some of the air-conditioning/filtration system in view. The gray cylinder in back is part of the suspension system for the floor on which is mounted all the machinery. |
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All photos shot with Sony DSC-D700 digital camera | |