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SR-71 at Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona Close-up of the SR-71B operated by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, California SR-71A at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Twelve SR-71s were lost and one pilot died in accidents during the aircraft's service career.
The goal of the X-33 program, and a major goal for NASA's Office of Aero-Space Technology, was to enable significant reductions in the cost of access to space, and to promote the creation and delivery of new space services and other activities that would improve U.S. economic competitiveness.
A fourth YF-12 aircraft, the "YF-12C", was actually the second SR-71A (AF Ser. No. 61–7951). This SR-71A was re-designated as a YF-12C and given the fictitious Air Force Serial Number 60-6937 from an A-12 to maintain SR-71 secrecy. The aircraft was loaned to NASA for propulsion testing after the loss of YF-12A (AF Ser. No. 60–6936) in 1971.
5 February 1968: Lockheed ordered to destroy A-12, YF-12 and SR-71 tooling. 8 March 1968: First SR-71A (#61-7978) arrives at Kadena AB to replace A-12s. 21 March 1968: First SR-71 (#61-7976) operational mission flown from Kadena AB over Vietnam. 8 May 1968: Jack Layton flies last operational A-12 sortie, over North Korea.
The suit is a direct descendant of the U.S. Air Force high-altitude pressure suits worn by the two-man crews of the SR-71 Blackbird, pilots of the U-2 and X-15, and Gemini pilot-astronauts, and the Launch Entry Suits (LES) worn by NASA astronauts starting on the STS-26 flight, the first flight after the Challenger disaster.
Lost — and found — in space. After liftoff, a larger satellite, called KH-9 Hexagon, shot the 26-inch-wide spacecraft into a low-earth orbit so it would continuously circumnavigate the globe ...
In the 1960s through 1990s, US aircraft would continue to do aerial reconnaissance and surveillance up to the edges of Soviet borders and airspace; for example, with reconnaissance aircraft (such as the A-12 and SR-71) and surveillance aircraft (such as the RC-135U and EP-3), but no more overflights would be done, because of the high likelihood ...
The Needham native has been stuck in space with Wilmore for the last seven months after problems with the Starliner concerned NASA and prompted them to keep them up there longer.