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The X-37B spaceplane was designed for an on-orbit duration of 270 days. The Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 successfully landed…
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- Aviation HistoryMilitary AviationSpace
The True Story Behind the Famous Sequence of The Right Stuff Movie featuring Chuck Yeager’s NF-104 Ejection
by Dario LeoneChuck Yeager hasn’t bailed out an airplane since the day he was shot down over Germany when he was twenty… I’ve…
- Space
719 Days of Orbital Spaceflight and Counting: the Mysterious X-37B Set New Spaceflight-Duration Record
by Dario LeoneThe current X-37B mission has broken a new spaceflight-duration record that was previously set at 717 days, 20 hours and 42…
- Military AviationSpace
Video shows first of three “new” F/A-18B Hornets arriving at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center
by Dario LeoneThe second F/A-18B is coming from NAS Patuxent River and is expected to arrive in the coming weeks. The third Hornet…
First Man stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong and is a personal look at his life and struggles in the time…
- Aviation HistoryMilitary AviationSpace
THE F-15 SATELLITE KILLER AND THE ASM-135A ASAT MISSILE
by Dario LeoneOn Jan. 21, 1984, the first launch of an anti-satellite missile from an F-15 took place over the Pacific Ocean. The…
- Aviation HistorySpace
THE STORY OF THE X-15 OFFICIAL WORLD RECORD FOR THE HIGHEST SPEED EVER SET BY A MANNED, POWERED AIRCRAFT
by Dario LeoneWhile Knight was performing some rudder pulses to get data with the yaw damper off after the burn out, at a…
Cernan concluded his historic space exploration career as commander of Apollo 17, the last human mission to the moon in December…
- Military AviationSpace
THIS CLIP FEATURES ONE OF THE LARGEST OBJECT EVER DROPPED FROM A C-17 AIRLIFTER
The Falcon SLV program was aimed to explore a less expensive and more flexible method of launching a satellite, into low…
- HelicoptersMilitary AviationSpace
FAMOUS USMC AH-1 COBRA FEMALE PILOT PERFORMS HER LAST FLIGHT BEFORE BEGINNING ASTRONAUT TRAINING
by Dario LeoneMaj. Jasmin Moghbeli, who has been chosen for the NASA Astronaut Candidate Class of 2017, has flown over 500 missions, 150…
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