In the fall of 1974, the Space and Missile Systems Organization conducted an air-launched ballistic missile test. The Minuteman ICBM weighed 86,000 pounds, and the only aircraft up to the task was the recently unveiled Lockheed C-5 Galaxy. The immense military transport aircraft conveyed the gigantic mine and dropped it from 20,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean, proving the feasibility of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile from the air.Although it was first conceived in the 1960s, the massive piece of engineering continues to serve in the Air Force and has taken part in several unique missions, including transporting Marine One to any place the president travels within the United States or overseas.The unusually sizable aircraft also played a pivotal role in the development of the first operational aircraft to be designed with stealth technology, a mission so secretive that the C-5 could only fly at night to transport each of the airframes…