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Image 18 - Minuteman I Launch Control Center I - "Out on the wind-swept prairie beyond Great Falls, travelers on the main highway pass one of 15 launch control facilities of the Montana Minuteman complex. These facilities are on the hubs of widely-dispersed rings of missile launchers. They house security forces, a small housekeeping crew and a two-man missile combat crew. Some fifty feet below in a hardened steel and concrete launch control center capsule, one of these crews is on constant alert, monitoring the readiness of their flight of 10 missiles." Circa December 1962. (Box 888)

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