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T O P I C R E V I E Wheng44Half a century ago this week, NASA test pilot Joe Algranti ejected from Lunar Landing Training Vehicle no. 1 during a final checkout flight of the craft before it would be released for astronaut training. The LLTV had been grounded since Neil Armstrong's crash in a similar vehicle in May 1968.PhilipSaw of video of the LLRV "flying bedstead" flying at Edwards... Flight 23 or 24 and I was amazed it occurred so relatively close to a parked U-2 and a B-47 StratoJet!
Half a century ago this week, NASA test pilot Joe Algranti ejected from Lunar Landing Training Vehicle no. 1 during a final checkout flight of the craft before it would be released for astronaut training. The LLTV had been grounded since Neil Armstrong's crash in a similar vehicle in May 1968.
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