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B-52 Mothership

DFRC director Kevin Petersen speaks to an audience of NASA and Air Force visitors, employees and special guests at the retirement ceremony for NASA's B-52B.

 
Photo Number: ED04-0362-07
Photo Date: December 17, 2004
 
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NASA Dryden Flight Research Center director Kevin Petersen speaks to an audience of NASA and U.S. Air Force visitors, employees and special guests, at the retirement ceremony for NASA's B-52B, on Dec. 17, 2004.

Regarded as having participated in more aviation history than any other single aircraft, NASA's famous B-52B mothership aircraft was retired on Dec. 17, 2004. A joint NASA and U.S. Air Force Flight Test Center ceremony marked the occasion, hosted at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

 
NASA Photo by: Tom Tschida
 
Keywords: B-52, B-52B, NB-52B, stratofortress, retirement ceremony, Edwards Air Force Base, mothership
 


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