NASA's B-52B mothership launch aircraft served as the backdrop at its retirement ceremony on Dec. 17, 2004.
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NASA’s B-52B mothership launch aircraft served as the backdrop at its retirement ceremony 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.December 17, 2004NASA Photo / Tom Tschida› B-52 Project Description