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B-52 Mothership

Dryden Center director Kevin Petersen shakes hands with AFFTC commander, Brig. Gen. Curtis Bedke, at the retirement ceremony for NASA's B-52B.
 
Photo Number: ED04-0362-08
Photo Date: December 17, 2004
 
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Description:		 NASA Dryden Flight Research Center director Kevin Petersen shakes hands with Air Force Flight Test Center commander, Brig. Gen. Curtis Bedke, at the retirement ceremony for NASA's B-52B, 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.
 
NASA Photo by: Tom Tschida
 
Keywords: B-52, B-52B, NB-52B, stratofortress, retirement ceremony, Edwards Air Force Base, mothership
 
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