In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, an M2-F2 aircraft is seen after it crash landed on Rogers Dry Lakebed at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California on May 10, 1967.

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, Jay L. King, Joseph D. Huxman and Orion D. Billeter assist NASA research pilot Milt Thompson (on the ladder) into the cockpit of the M2-F2 lifting ...

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The contraption looked more like an inverted flat iron than a flying machine. With two tail fins and no wings, a rounded belly and a flat top, the experimental craft M2-F2 was rolled out last week by ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE – Retired NASA pilot Bruce Peterson, perhaps best known to the general public for surviving a spectacular crash that was used in the opening credits of the 1970s TV show “The ...

Peterson's M2-F2 after the crash. It was about the hardest landing you can have and survive. Forty-four years ago today, NASA test pilot Bruce Peterson unwittingly created the intro for 1970s ...

Some 45,000 ft. above the Southern California desert last week, a B-52 bomber cut loose the strange cargo tucked under its wing. Freed from the mother ship, a gleaming but cumbersome aluminum shape ...

Bruce A. Peterson, the survivor of a spectacular crash of a wingless research aircraft on a dry lakebed in 1967, got used to being introduced as the real “Six Million Dollar Man.” The former NASA ...

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Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This M2-F3 lifting body was a heavyweight, wingless lifting body research craft of the 1960s. This F3 is the F2 ...

Former NASA test pilot Bruce Peterson, whose spectacular crash in an M2-F2 aircraft helped inspire the TV program “The Six Million Dollar Man” and became part of the show’s opening credits, died ...