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Lockheed Martin

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The Black Bird and the Soviet Union Overflight

The first Soviet Union overflight happens on July 4th, 1956. It would be another 10 years before we would have the moon missions. The pilots had to breathe pure oxygen for two hours to remove all the nitrogen from their blood in case they had to eject. A bunch of people died doing this, like we should say.

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