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…of a 1992 Minuteman launch that went unstable and returned ballistic at Vandenberg AFB.

The base Colonel was curious enough to dig out the remains from the crater…
much like we do in the desert. =)

And yes, there is a Space Country Times. Might be time for me to subscribe to a newspaper again…

5 responses to “All that remains”

  1. The "before"…peering insideWhat's That? (48)and the same AFB cocktail party, the launch controller ICBM LauncherJust dial in the missile(s) to fire and jiggle the too left knob for each bank.

  2. Great shot of the debris. Thank goodness that the system works though.

  3. "This section of a Minuteman I missile guidance computer is a 24-bit serial minicomputer that controlled an on-board inertial guidance system."

    Wow, that’s quite a bunch of wires for a "mini-computer"… I love the two wires running across, ignoring all the cable ducts and the neat vibration-proof assembly of everything else…
    Of course, these days the whole thing would be the size of a coin…
    This little microcontroller costs $7.99, has 8 (!) parallel 32 bit cores and will probably compute the hell out of the minuteman computer…


    (Parallax)

  4. I love the glass jar, like it was a specimin collected by Eva in ‘WALL-E’ to be returned to some mothership for analysis. Cool curved bottom, eh?

  5. Here’s a photo of the command capsule door to a Minuteman site:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/8344716@N03/3776636758/

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