It’s extremely rare for a civilian - even a journalist - to score an edge-of-space ride in the backseat of a U-2 spy plane ... pilot Gary Powers, while taking secret photos at more than 70,000 ...
On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a CIA U-2 spy plane and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. It was an international crisis for America’s intelligence agencies. A planned summit ...
NASA's modified U-2 spy plane, the ER-2, is conducting geological ... shot down over Soviet territory and its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was taken prisoner.