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Historic First Landing of NASA's P-3B in Antarctica
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Historic First Landing of NASA's P-3B in Antarctica

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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NASA's first ever historic P-3B landing in McMurdo Station, Antarctica on the sea ice runway, which occurred on Nov. 16, 2013. It took the craft 5 days to reach Antarctica from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. You can see the IceBridge Team waiting to greet the flight crew as they taxied for the very first time right up to the IceBridge team tents.

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Credit lineHistoric First Landing of NASA's P-3B in Antarctica. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001270.

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