Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Archives

Mach 25, It Made No Military History, and Was Faster Than the SR-71 Blackbird: NASA’s Space Shuttle Was the Fastest Machine Humans Ever Flew and Made Aviation and Space History

Pitched to Congress in 1972 as a $20-million-a-flight space truck, the Space Shuttle flew 135 missions over 30 years at about $1.5 billion each,...