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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 3887073" data-attributes="member: 7900"><p>Last day of seeing the sights of South Dakota today. We went out west of Rapid City to see the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site and the Badlands.</p><p></p><p>The Minuteman Missile NHS is a complex of three different sites within a few miles of each other. Delta-09 is a visible silo with a training Minuteman missile within it. Delta-01 is the missile launch complex a few miles east of the silo. The launch complex has the support facilities on the surface at the site while the actual launch control center is underground. When in operation, there were 8 enlisted men on duty to support the 2 officers that manned the launch center. One of the enlisted men was the NCO in charge, and he over saw the others, those being one cook and 6 men for security.</p><p></p><p>First, the Minuteman in its silo at Delta-09.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-09-Minuteman-Missile-Silo/i-VfJnRn7/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-09-Minuteman-Missile-Silo/i-VfJnRn7/0/e193ea7f/X2/DSC_8490-X2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Launch site support buildings.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-WS57mhJ/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-WS57mhJ/0/21b602c2/X2/DSC_8524-X2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Delta-01 also had entertainment facilities. It looked like it had a volleyball court and some kind of cooker for cooking food outside.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-Zw2fDzN/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-Zw2fDzN/0/68e4ff92/X2/DSC_8519-X2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-GtFRwzb/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-GtFRwzb/0/704d04ee/X2/DSC_8523-X2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>One can tour the Delta-01 site only if they book a reservation and pay a fee. There is a limit of something like 6 people that can be on a tour. During the busy season, reservations can be as far out as 8 weeks, so if one goes there during the tourist season, one better book early. We might could have toured it, but their aboveground facilities are under renovation, and if I can't see the whole system, I'll just wait.</p><p></p><p>The Minuteman museum is right off of I-90 and is easy to see. Plus, if anyone is interested, it is at the same intersection as one of the entrances to the Badlands National Park. That intersection is I-90 and Highway 240. We took in the museum and then went to the Badlands.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site-Museum/i-HktHx8M/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site-Museum/i-HktHx8M/0/36b9679e/X2/DSC_8533-X2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>The open area of this missile "head" apparently is where the nuclear warhead would be located.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site-Museum/i-WjjTMNg/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site-Museum/i-WjjTMNg/0/4b101a90/X3/DSC_8574-X3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-DHbTbXC/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-DHbTbXC/0/82d613b0/X2/DSC_8652-X2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-B3kQZ3Z/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-B3kQZ3Z/0/f326b0a3/X2/DSC_8665-X2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-vzFWdPn/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-vzFWdPn/0/41926b2b/XL/DSC_8675-XL.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-KjrZWnH/A" target="_blank"><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-KjrZWnH/0/00f5b0d0/X2/DSC_8717-X2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Tomorrow, we head home, and I'm really ready to get back there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 3887073, member: 7900"] Last day of seeing the sights of South Dakota today. We went out west of Rapid City to see the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site and the Badlands. The Minuteman Missile NHS is a complex of three different sites within a few miles of each other. Delta-09 is a visible silo with a training Minuteman missile within it. Delta-01 is the missile launch complex a few miles east of the silo. The launch complex has the support facilities on the surface at the site while the actual launch control center is underground. When in operation, there were 8 enlisted men on duty to support the 2 officers that manned the launch center. One of the enlisted men was the NCO in charge, and he over saw the others, those being one cook and 6 men for security. First, the Minuteman in its silo at Delta-09. [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-09-Minuteman-Missile-Silo/i-VfJnRn7/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-09-Minuteman-Missile-Silo/i-VfJnRn7/0/e193ea7f/X2/DSC_8490-X2.jpg[/img][/url] Launch site support buildings. [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-WS57mhJ/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-WS57mhJ/0/21b602c2/X2/DSC_8524-X2.jpg[/img][/url] Delta-01 also had entertainment facilities. It looked like it had a volleyball court and some kind of cooker for cooking food outside. [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-Zw2fDzN/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-Zw2fDzN/0/68e4ff92/X2/DSC_8519-X2.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-GtFRwzb/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Delta-01-Minuteman-Missile-NHS-Launch-Site/i-GtFRwzb/0/704d04ee/X2/DSC_8523-X2.jpg[/img][/url] One can tour the Delta-01 site only if they book a reservation and pay a fee. There is a limit of something like 6 people that can be on a tour. During the busy season, reservations can be as far out as 8 weeks, so if one goes there during the tourist season, one better book early. We might could have toured it, but their aboveground facilities are under renovation, and if I can't see the whole system, I'll just wait. The Minuteman museum is right off of I-90 and is easy to see. Plus, if anyone is interested, it is at the same intersection as one of the entrances to the Badlands National Park. That intersection is I-90 and Highway 240. We took in the museum and then went to the Badlands. [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site-Museum/i-HktHx8M/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site-Museum/i-HktHx8M/0/36b9679e/X2/DSC_8533-X2.jpg[/img][/url] The open area of this missile "head" apparently is where the nuclear warhead would be located. [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site-Museum/i-WjjTMNg/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site/Minuteman-Missile-National-Historic-Site-Museum/i-WjjTMNg/0/4b101a90/X3/DSC_8574-X3.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-DHbTbXC/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-DHbTbXC/0/82d613b0/X2/DSC_8652-X2.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-B3kQZ3Z/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-B3kQZ3Z/0/f326b0a3/X2/DSC_8665-X2.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-vzFWdPn/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-vzFWdPn/0/41926b2b/XL/DSC_8675-XL.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://terrymiller.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-KjrZWnH/A][img]https://photos.smugmug.com/South-Dakota-Sights-and-Beauty/2022-South-Dakota-and-Wyoming-Vacation/Badlands-National-Park/i-KjrZWnH/0/00f5b0d0/X2/DSC_8717-X2.jpg[/img][/url] Tomorrow, we head home, and I'm really ready to get back there. 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