Walls are not connected to floors. In the war room, an old punched tape reader is ready to feed secret target directions into the guidance system. The scariest part is not the missile itself, but the antiquated equipment that national security once rested upon. Toggles, analog dials, and low budget flashing computer panels. Sue Abbott and Randy Brightbill, Plainview TX, pose with deactivated ordnance at the Titan Missile Museum With a retirees' special combination of thoroughness and forgetfulness, we learn about the very typical boring day of a missile crew.
Visitors look at each other.
First to the safe where launch keys and codes are kept. Two different keys are inserted into two different parts of the computer. Different sets of lights blink on, then alarms, bells, and quiet. Your group is led down the cableway for an underground view of the missile. Then, without even checking to see if the blast doors are hot, you are booted back to the surface and into the gift store.