CAPT. Mike Thomas, a launch control officer with the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, works in the battle staff compartment aboard an EC-135 Stratolifter "Looking Glass" aircraft during "Glory trip 143GB." Glory Trip 143GB is the first remote launch of a silo-housed Minuteman III missile by an aircraft based at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. The missile will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: GLORY TRIP 143GB
Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. Scott P. Stewart
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
22/03/1991
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Source
The U.S. National Archives
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