The Six Million Dollar Man Bruce Peterson Crash

The Six Million Dollar Man Bruce Peterson Crash
Bruce A. Peterson, the survivor of a spectacular crash of a wingless research aircraft on a dry lakebed in 1967, got used to being introduced as the real “Six Million Dollar Man.”

The former NASA research pilot and engineer, who died at 72 of natural causes at his home in Laguna Niguel, helped inspire the 1974-78 television series starring Lee Majors as an astronaut and test pilot who is critically injured in a similar crash.

Film footage of Peterson’s crash was seen in the opening credits of the series.
Credit: NASA
Harve Bennett
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