page_title: 44th Missile Wing LGM-30 Minuteman Missile Launch Sites
hierarchical_section_title: 44th Missile Wing LGM-30 Minuteman Missile Launch Sites
caption_attribution_description: 44th Missile Wing
context_page_description: This is a list of the LGM-30 Minuteman missile, Missile Alert Facilities and Launch Facilities of the 44th Missile Wing, 20th Air Force, assigned to Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota.
  The 44th SMW executed the unique 'Long Life' test of a Minuteman ICBM. The 68th Strategic Missile Squadron performed the only launch of a United States ICBM from an operational inland US missile site from LF November-02 on 1 March 1965. The first stage was loaded with only enough propellant for seven seconds of burn time and the upper stages were inert. It successfully demonstrated the ability of a Strategic Air Command missile crew to launch an ICBM.
context_section_description: This is a list of the LGM-30 Minuteman missile, Missile Alert Facilities and Launch Facilities of the 44th Missile Wing, 20th Air Force, assigned to Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota.
  The 44th SMW executed the unique 'Long Life' test of a Minuteman ICBM.  The 68th Strategic Missile Squadron performed the only launch of a United States ICBM from an operational inland US missile site from LF November-02 (N-02)  on 1 March 1965. The first stage was loaded with only enough propellant for seven seconds of burn time and the upper stages were inert.  It successfully demonstrated the ability of a Strategic Air Command missile crew to launch an ICBM.
caption: Emblem of the 44th Missile Wing
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