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U-2 Photo Gallery Contact Sheet | ||
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Photo Number: | N/A | |
Photo Date: | 23 May 2000 | |
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Formats: | Low Resolution Image Contact Sheet (16 KBytes) Medium Resolution Image Contact Sheet (16 KBytes) High Resolution Image Contact Sheet (16 KBytes) |
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Description: |
These are the image contact sheets for each image resolution of the NASA Dryden U-2 Photo Gallery.
After Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union during a CIA spy flight on 1 May 1960, NASA issued a press release with a cover story about a U-2 conducting weather research that may have strayed off course after the pilot "reported difficulties with his oxygen equipment." To bolster the cover-up, a U-2 was quickly painted in NASA markings, with a fictitious NASA serial number, and put on display for the news media at the NASA Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base on 6 May 1960. The next day, Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev exposed the cover-up by revealing that the pilot had been captured, and espionage equipment had been recovered from the wreckage.
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Keywords: | U-2; spy plane; Gary Powers; Soviet Union; CIA; Edwards Air Force Base; Nikita Kruschev; Sverdlovsk; fictitious serial number; U-2C |
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