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.
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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.› B-52 Project DescriptionDecember 17, 2004NASA Photo / Tom Tschida