{"id":294,"date":"2009-05-09T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T13:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=294"},"modified":"2013-02-12T05:54:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T10:54:24","slug":"lifting-body-and-misty-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/lifting-body-and-misty-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lifting Body and a &#39;Misty&#39; Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two space history anniversaries today:<\/p>\n<p>Forty years ago today &#8212; May 9, 1969 &#8212; John A. Manke flew the HL-10 lifting body in its first supersonic flight at the Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards Air Force Base. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/convert_files\/289=22-ECN-2203.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(HL-10 on the Edwards AFB lakebed, with B-52 flyover. NASA photo ECN-2203. 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