X-38 Mounted on Pylon of NB-52B Mothership (EC97-44105-29).jpg

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Description	English: A close-up view of the X-38 research vehicle mounted under the wing of the B-52 mothership prior to a 1997 test flight. The X-38, which was designed to help develop technology for an emergency crew return vehicle (CRV) for the International Space Station, is one of many research vehicles the B-52 has carried aloft over the past 40 years.
Date	July 1997
Source	https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-38/HTML/EC97-44105-29.html (image link)
Author	NASA/Tony Landis

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Image title	A close-up view of the X-38 research vehicle mounted under the wing of the B-52 mothership prior to a 1997 test flight. The X-38, which was designed to help develop technology for an emergency crew return vehicle (CRV) for the International Space Station, is one of many research vehicles the B-52 has carried aloft over the past 40 years.
Author	NASA/Tony Landis
Copyright holder	For copyright and restrictions refer to - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html
Headline	X-38 Mounted on Pylon of B-52 Mothership
City shown	Edwards
Date and time of data generation	6 July 1997
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	300 dpi
Vertical resolution	300 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)
File change date and time	11:14, 10 July 2017
Colour space	Uncalibrated
Date metadata was last modified	04:14, 10 July 2017
Date and time of digitising	02:37, 4 March 2009
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:d74927c6-c0d0-9f4d-bf65-9062dc594feb
Copyright status	Copyright status not set
Keywords	B-52 Boeing Pratt&Whitney X-15 SRV lifting body HiMAT DAST high angle of attack Space Shuttle Pegasus turbojet Roy Bryant X-38 Crew Return Vehicle CRV International Space Station.
Sublocation of city shown	AFRC
Province or state shown	CA
Country shown	USA
IIM version	4