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X-38 flies free from NASA's B-52 mothership, July 10, 2001 X-38 flies free from NASA's B-52 mothership, July 10, 2001

Photo Number: EC01-0204-2
Photo Date: July 10, 2001

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Description: The second free-flight test of an evolving series of X-38 prototypes took place July 10, 2001 when the X-38 was released from NASA's B-52 mothership over the Edwards Air Force Base range in California's Mojave Desert. Shortly after the photo was taken, a sequenced deployment of a drogue parachute followed by a large parafoil fabric wing slowed the X-38 to enable it to land safely on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards. NASA engineers from the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, and the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, are developing a "lifeboat" for the International Space Station based on X-38 research.

NASA Photo by: Jim Ross

Keywords: X-38; V131R; free flight; B-52; 2nd flight



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