Two B-52s served as NASA motherships for the X-15 programme. The rocket plane hit Mach 6.7 and 354,200 feet. Its data helped build Mercury, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle.

NASA strapped a rocket plane to a B-52's wing and it flew to the edge of space

The Artemis III crew will carry out a mission similar to NASA’s Apollo 9 flight in March 1969, when three astronauts tested the spindly lunar excursion module in Earth orbit. Then the Apollo 10 flight tested the lunar module in lunar orbit before Apollo 11 finally made the first moon landing.

NASA names four astronauts as crew members of Artemis III mission ahead of moon landing

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NASA strapped a rocket plane to a B-52's wing and it flew to the edge of space

NASA names four astronauts as crew members of Artemis III mission in 2027