Fake NASA Lockheed U-2 spy aircraft,with fictitious NASA markings added to support the CIA 'weather research' cover story for pilot Gary Powers,shot down over the Soviet Union on 1 May 1960. In reality,NASA did not use U-2 aircraft until 1971. The Soviets revealed that the pilot had been captured,and espionage equipment recovered from the wreckage. Powers,shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile near Sverdlovsk,was interrogated by the Soviet authorities and imprisoned for espionage. He was released in 1962 as part of a spy swap with the USA. Photographed at NASA Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base on 6 May 1960 | |
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