Three missile launch buildings mark the former Atlas missile site No. 3, east of Cheyenne. Site No. 3 is one of several former Atlas facilities around Cheyenne that contaminated groundwater with ...

You can spend the night in a decommissioned Atlas Missile site in Ellsworth County. During the 1950s, the U.S. government spent billions on bolstering our military defense against Russian communism.

WILSON, Kan. (KSNW) — Imagine exploring a relic of the Cold War in central Kansas. Now, you don’t have to imagine it. You can spend the night in a decommissioned Atlas Missile site in ...

OPLIN, Texas — During the height of the Cold War, twelve Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile silos were built in the Big Country, all surrounding Dyess Airforce Base. Built to withstand a ...

The first U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile was the Atlas, a 75-ft-long, 10-ft-dia, 130-ton weapon. An ENR reporter visited the first Atlas missile site during construction at Vandenberg Air ...

The ranch, a renovated Atlas missile silo that is is used as a vacation rental experience, will be hosting tours of the facility during the 2024 Big Kansas Road Trip in May.

The U.S. government decommissioned the Atlas-F sites in 1965. While operational, the missile itself was in a vertical silo that was connected by a 40-foot tunnel to an adjoining control center ...

CASPER, Wyo. — The arching frame of a steel gate towering over the rolling prairie 20 miles east of Cheyenne was once the first line of defense for a Cold ...