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Stock photo of a X-38 research vehicle dropping away from NASA’s B-52 mothership immediately after being released from the B-52’s wing pylon, July 1st 1999. More than 30 years earlier, this same B-52 launched the original lifting-body vehicles flight tested by NASA and the Air Force at what is now called the Dryden Flight Research Center and the Air Force Flight Test Center. NASA B-52 Tail Number 008 is an air launch carrier aircraft "mothership," as well as a research aircraft platform that has been used on a variety of research projects. Photo Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas [0003-0703-1500-0440] by 0003
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