we're at the titan missile museum in arizona about 25 miles south of downtown tucson and we're in the launch control center of the missile site. that's essentially the nerve center of the missile site itself. from here, using all of this equipment, the crew has a bird's eye view of the condition of the missile and of the missile site. they first have to receive a launch order telling them to execute their missile and what time they're going to do that. and in order for them to do that they're going to need two keys, two launch keys. one launch key for the crew commander and one for the deputy crew commander. the launch keys are secured in what was called the emergency war order safe to the crew. the ewo safe is secured by two padlocks, and these are combination padlocks and each lock longs to a specific officer on the crew so this is the crew commander's launch -- locked and this is the deputy crew commander's lock. only the officer who owns the lock knows the combination to the lock. and when we receive those locks when we qualify for crew duty, we set the combination. and then that

we are at the titan missile museum 25 miles south of downtown tucson. we are in the launch control center of the missile site. that is essentially the nerve center of the missile site itself. from here, using all this equipment, the crew has a birds eye view of the condition of the missile and the missile site. then it is also from here that the crew would launch the missile if they were ordered to do so. so, in order to launch a titan ii missile, the crew needs a number of things. first of all they have to , receive a launch order that will tell them to execute their missile and what time they will do that. in order for them to do that, they will need two keys. one launch key for the crew commander, and one launch key for that deputy crew commander. the launch keys were secured in the emergency war order safe. the crew.o twosafest secured by combination padlocks. each belongs to a specific officer on the crew. this is the crew commander's lock, this is the deputy crew commander's lock. even the officer who owns the lock knows the combination. when we re