Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I’d love to know what NASA has planned for it.

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    All the titanium for the current ones came from Russia. They’re even harder to trade with now than they were in the cold war

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      We didn’t directly trade with them then, and we wouldn’t now. If the government wanted it, they’d just do the same thing and use intermediary countries and shell companies.

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      That was during the cold war in the 60s and 70s things are different now. I am not sure how different, but they are.