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Watch a ski plane try to take off at -40° - then the rockets fire

In the middle of the Arctic, an LC-130 ski plane tried to take off in -40° conditions after overshooting the skiway and ...
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NASA strapped a rocket plane to a B-52's wing and it flew to the edge of space

Before NASA could send astronauts into orbit, it needed to understand what happened to aircraft and pilots at the very edge of the atmosphere, at speeds and altitudes no conventional aircraft could ...