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NASA's historic B-52 mother ship carried the X-43A and its Pegasus booster rocket on a captive carry flight from...
NASA's historic B-52 mother ship carried the X-43A and its Pegasus booster rocket on a captive carry flight from...
NASA's historic B-52 mother ship carried the X-43A and its Pegasus booster rocket on a captive carry flight from...
Hitching a ride on the same B-52 mother ship that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's X-43A...
Hitching a ride on the same B-52 mother ship that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's X-43A...
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket left the runway, carried aloft...
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket left the runway, carried aloft...
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket left the runway, carried aloft...
The third X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket left the runway, carried aloft...
Attached to the same B-52B mothership that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's third X-43A...
Attached to the same B-52B mothership that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's third X-43A...
The third X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, attached to a modified Pegasus booster rocket, was taken to launch...
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket left the runway, carried aloft...
NASA retired its esteemed B-52B heavy-lift aircraft after nearly half a century of consistent service. The B-52B's...
The Pegasus air-launched space booster is carried aloft under the right wing of NASA's B-52 carrier aircraft on its...
A one-twentieth scale model of the X-15 originally suspended beneath the wing of a B-52 is observed by a scientist...
A one-twentieth scale model of the X-15 originally suspended beneath the wing of a B-52 is observed by a scientist...
Air Force test pilot Maj. Michael J. Adams stands beside X-15 ship number one. Adams was selected for the X-15...
From December 10, 1966, until his retirement on February 27, 1976, Stanley P. Butchart served as Chief (later,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the first half of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA's Kepler spacecraft,...
The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center,...
The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center,...
The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center,...