NASA’s DC-8 Completes Final Mission, Set to Retire

After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASAs DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agencys Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, on April 1. The DC-8 and crew were welcomed back with a celebratory water salute by the U.S Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department after completing 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/image...
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