Fairchild and Air Force History (Jan. 30 - Feb. 4) Published Jan. 26, 2010 By Dan Simmons FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- Listed below are significant historical events that occurred during the week of 29 Jan - 4 Feb at Fairchild Air Force Base. Jan. 31, 1998: In support of U.S. national security objectives in the Persian Gulf, the 92nd Air Refueling Wing deployed personnel for Operation Phoenix Scorpion II. Feb. 1, 1996: The 92nd Comptroller Squadron was reactivated. Feb. 2, 1999: The 92nd ARW began Pacer CRAG (Compass, Radar and Global Positioning System) modifications on the KC-135. These upgrades replaced the old cockpit with a "glass cockpit." Listed below are significant events that occurred during the week of 29 Jan - 4 Feb in U.S. Air Force/Aerospace history. Jan. 30, 1948: Orville Wright died in Dayton, Ohio, at the age of 76. Feb. 1, 1952: The Air Force acquired its first general-purpose, high-speed digital computer, a vacuum-tube-based Univac I. Jan. 31, 1958: Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite to go into orbit, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Feb. 1, 1958: Francis E. Warren AFB, Wyo., became the first intercontinental ballistic missile base of Strategic Air Command. Feb. 3, 1961: As part of a project called "Looking Glass," Strategic Air Command began flying EC-135s to provide a 24-hour-a-day airborne command post for the President and Secretary of Defense in case an enemy attack wiped out land-based command and control sites that controlled strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The "Looking Glass" flights continued for nearly 30 years until the end of the Cold War. Feb. 3, 1995: Lt Col Eileen M. Collins, USAF, became the first woman pilot of a space shuttle. Feb. 4, 2002: An unmanned aerial vehicle destroyed an enemy target for the first time when a remotely controlled MQ-1B Predator fired a Hellfire missile to kill a group of senior al Qaeda members in southeastern Afghanistan.