NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Director Kevin Petersen shook hands with Air Force Flight Test Center commander, Brig. Gen. Curtis Bedke, at the retirement ceremony for NASA's B-52B.
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NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Director Kevin Petersen shook hands with Air Force Flight Test Center commander, Brig. Gen. Curtis Bedke, at the retirement ceremony for NASA’s B-52B.
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 at Edwards, CA.December 17, 2004NASA Photo / Tom Tschida› B-52 Project Description