The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Oct. 11, 1965, issue featured Northrop Corp.'s M2-F2 lifting body research vehicle mated to the wing of a Boeing B-52 at NASA’s Flight Research Center ...

Seen here, the Northrop M2-F2, a prototype that would eventually serve as a model for the Space Shuttle, flies gracefully through a clear sky. Everything goes wrong, however, as it attempts to land, ...

Steve Austin, the bionic character on the television show "The Six Million Dollar Man," was largely based on someone born in North Dakota. Bruce Peterson was an experienced NASA research pilot who was ...