The reconnaissance balloons from the Moby Dick program floated with the winds and were retrieved after passing beyond Soviet borders. Only 44 were successfully recovered.

Other collections within the Archives Division of the National Air and Space Museum which are relevant to Waco are as follows: The Hattie Meyers Junkin Papers(1906-1982), Accession #XXXX-0171.

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Through a representative in England, General Electric learned of the pioneering jet engine development of Frank Whittle. This resulted in a visit by General H.H. Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air ...

This is an unflown Mark 4 reentry vehicle (RV) used on U.S. Air Force Titan I and Atlas E/F intercontinental ballistic missiles that were deployed in the early 1960s. It carried a W-38 nuclear warhead ...

Images made with LIDAR have revealed previously unknown ancient Mayan structures. (PACUNAM/Francisco Estrada-Belli) ...

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