NASA Jets Pursue Solar Eclipse Science Bounty

Credit: WB-57F jets: NASA/JSC Aircraft Operations
HOUSTON—A pair of high-definition, video camera-equipped NASA WB-57F jets soared from their Ellington Airport base near Johnson Space Center here early Aug. 21 and headed north toward Kansas City, Missouri, for a high-altitude observation campaign focused on a rare total solar eclipse. The mission...

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