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B-52 Stratofortress

The B-52 is a long-range, heavy bomber that can perform a variety of missions.
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Manned Orbiting Laboratory

Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), an evolution of the earlier "Blue Gemini" program, which was conceived to be an all-Air Force parallel of NASA's Gemini efforts. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Page 5 of 5 of March 1965 message
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Page 4 of 5 of March 1965 message
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Page 3 of 5 of March 1965 message
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Page 2 of 5 of March 1965 message
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Pircute

Page 1 of 5 of March 1965 message
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Project Score

On Dec. 18, 1958, the Air Force placed in orbit the first artificial communications satellite, a Project Score relay vehicle integral with the four-ton Atlas launcher. The next day, the satellite broadcast a taped recording of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Christmas message--the first time a human voice had been heard from space. (U.S. Army illustration)
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DSP Satellite

DAYTON, Ohio -- A structural test vehicle from the Defense Support Program (DSP) on display in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force's Missile & Space Gallery. (U.S. Air Force Photo)
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NASA VIKING flying saucer

This NASA VIKING flying saucer-like space probe was test flown by U.S. Air Force high altitude balloons in the 1972 at the former Roswell Army Air Field (NASA).
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Dummies launched at White Sands Proving Ground

PROJECT HIGH DIVE anthropomorphic dummy launch, White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, June 11, 1953
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“Sierra Sam” Photo Op

A “Sierra Sam” with HIGH DIVE PROJECT Officers 1st Lts. Eugene M. Schwartz (left) and Raymond A. Madson (right). This dummy is outfitted in a “sage green” colored filghtsuit (a shade of gray) with red tape sealing its neck, wrists, and ankles.
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Dummies launched with gondola

Three tests utilized anthropomorphic dummies mounted in the door of an experimental PROJECT HIGH DIVE gondola. This launch took place on October 8, 1957, in front of curious onlookers at the public picnic area of White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.
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Close-up of a NASA VIKING saucer

This NASA VIKING flying landed in the dessert at the former Roswell Army Air Field (NASA).
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“Sierra Sam”

Examples of “Sierra Sam” and Alderson Laboratories anthropomorphic dummies of the type dropped from balloons at off-range locations throughout New Mexico during the 1950s. Air Force personnel used stretchers and gurneys to pick up 200-pound dummies in the field and move them to in the laboratory
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Areoshell of a NASA VOYAGER-MARS Space Probe

The areoshell of a NASA VOYAGER-MARS space probe just prior to launch at Walker AFB, New Mexico (formerly Roswell AAF).
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Page 16 of the 20th Army Air Forces Recon photo booklet of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This is a representative sample of documents the Air Force has transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Air Force Declassification Office (AFDO) has reviewed the records in this box and declassified most of it’s contents. This document is (and was) unclassified. The original record can be found at the National Archives II located at 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD in Record Group 341, with Finding Aid of NM-15 in Box 80. The last know location of the box was 631-50-54-4-1 and had a series title of “Deputy Director for Collection and Dissemination. Air Intelligence Reports 1942-1953”.
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Page 13 of the 20th Army Air Forces Recon photo booklet of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This is a representative sample of documents the Air Force has transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Air Force Declassification Office (AFDO) has reviewed the records in this box and declassified most of it’s contents. This document is (and was) unclassified. The original record can be found at the National Archives II located at 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD in Record Group 341, with Finding Aid of NM-15 in Box 80. The last know location of the box was 631-50-54-4-1 and had a series title of “Deputy Director for Collection and Dissemination. Air Intelligence Reports 1942-1953”.
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Page 14 of the 20th Army Air Forces Recon photo booklet of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This is a representative sample of documents the Air Force has transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Air Force Declassification Office (AFDO) has reviewed the records in this box and declassified most of it’s contents. This document is (and was) unclassified. The original record can be found at the National Archives II located at 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD in Record Group 341, with Finding Aid of NM-15 in Box 80. The last know location of the box was 631-50-54-4-1 and had a series title of “Deputy Director for Collection and Dissemination. Air Intelligence Reports 1942-1953”.
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Page 12 of the 20th Army Air Forces Recon photo booklet of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This is a representative sample of documents the Air Force has transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Air Force Declassification Office (AFDO) has reviewed the records in this box and declassified most of it’s contents. This document is (and was) unclassified. The original record can be found at the National Archives II located at 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD in Record Group 341, with Finding Aid of NM-15 in Box 80. The last know location of the box was 631-50-54-4-1 and had a series title of “Deputy Director for Collection and Dissemination. Air Intelligence Reports 1942-1953”.
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