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NASA’s 1968 RC Line-Up
In the midst of NASA's Apollo Program, which saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, the U.S. space agency built a line-up of RC planes. At the time, NASA was engaged in flight research with a variety of reentry shapes called "lifting bodies," which are the six aircraft in the foreground. The purple and yellow "mothership" was used to launch the lifting bodies. This photo was taken at the NASA Flight Research Center (now named...
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