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The orbiter has six windows around the commander and pilot, plus two overhead at the rear of the flight deck, plus two more looking back into the payload bay, plus one in the side hatch. All the windows, except for the ones looking back into the payload bay and the side hatch window, have three panes, with a total thickness of about 2.55 inches. The two payload bay windows have only two panes ...

Without any kind of wind on the Moon's surface, some mechanism was needed to hold the flag out for pictures. A rod was run through the top of the flag and connected to the top of the flag pole. The flag wasn't packed loose, and had to be unfolded and pulled straight, not an easy thing to do in Apollo-style spacesuits. As the astronauts were setting up the flag, the rod at the top would swing a ...

... air records set by pilots in the SR-71. Maj. Adolphus (Pat) Bledsoe, Jr., pilot, with Maj. John Fuller as reconnaissance system manager, flew the SR-71 at 3400 kph, surpassing the previous "absolute ... , Capt. Robert C. Helt, pilot, with Maj. Larry A. Elliott as recon officer, flew the SR-71 to an altitude of 26 km, surpassing the previous record of 24.4 km (in ... interceptor (prototype sister ship of SR-71). On the same day, Capt. Elden Joersz, pilot, with Maj. George T. Morgan, Jr., as recon officer, flew the SR-71 at a speed of 3530 kph ...

... reconnaissance air-craft to be employed by Strategic Air Command : "This system employs the new SR-71 aircraft and provides a long-range, advanced strategic reconnaissance plane for military use capable of ... situations in which the United States military forces may be confronting foreign military forces. "The SR-71 uses the same J-58 engine as the experimental interceptor previously announced, but it is ...

... Laboratory ''(MOL)''. ''(M&R, 1/4/65, 26)'' USAF's new strategic reconnaissance plane, the SR-71 , made its maiden flight at Palmdale, Calif., exceeding an altitude of 45,000 ft. and ... , the SR-71 would eventually fly at more than 2,000 mph and above 80,000 ft. The Lockheed-built plane was flown by civilian test pilot Bob Gilliland. In 1965, the SR-71 ...

... , naturally, and he’s a former fighter pilot. It turned out we were flying the SR-71 that day, and so I was able, when it was coming smoking back, he was ... him on radar and intercepted and pulled up alongside, let him fly it, you know, SR-71, as mysterious an airplane to the Russians. As a matter of fact, Borisev had been flying MiG-23s up near the Baltic Sea , an interceptor aircraft, making passes at SRs flying by, trying to intercept it, which he didn’t succeed much because it was ...

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