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The X-38 research vehicle dropped away from NASA’s B-52 mothership after being released from the B-52’s wing pylon. More than 30 years earlier, this same B-52 released the original lifting-body vehicles flight tested by NASA and the Air Force at what is now called the Armstrong Flight Research Center and the Air Force Test Center.July 1999NASA Photo / Carla Thomas› X-38 Project Description
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