Atlas

In front of the museum is an Atlas missile.

According to Chuck Walker's Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon, the Atlas is vehicle 8A, "reconfigured to Atlas D configuration." Being research & development models, relatively few of the Atlas A through Atlas C series were manufactured (the Atlas D being the first operational version). The Atlas A was even more interesting in that it had only the two outer booster engines, lacking a center sustainer engine.

I think it would have made a more interesting display to have kept the Atlas in its "A" configuration (plus, the dummy sustainer engine leaves something to be desired).

As of now, I have not yet sorted through all of my pictures of the Atlas, but some other page references this location. Thus, this is a "place holder" version right now, with only the pictures actually referenced. Come back some time later to see if I've finished up, or drop me an email to request me to prioritize the rest of these pictures.