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Also Known As XS-1 • Glamorous Glennis • Bell XS-1 • X-1

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Witness X1-E taking off under a B-29 from Edwards Air Force Base, California
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Bell, Lawrence
Lawrence Dale Bell
American aircraft designer

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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
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