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  "textContent": "From the heartbreak of an early flight failure to a resounding triumph over the Norwegian Sea, the Boundary Layer Transition and Turbulence (BOLT) Program spent nearly a decade launching rockets into the atmosphere, to investigate boundary layer transition and turbulence, key phenomena in hypersonic flight.",
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