NASA ER-2 overflies Russia in ozone-loss experiment

Almost 40 years after the Soviet Union downed a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft operated in its airspace by the CIA, a research version of the high-altitude plane operated by NASA has overflown the Russian Federation on an ozone-loss experiment "closely coordinated with Russian observers." NASA said...

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