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Airborne Science in the Classroom
NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (NAMMA) probes an easterly atmospheric wave off the African continent.
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NASA Awards SOFIA Development, Engineering Pact to L-3 Communications
Dryden has awarded a contract to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P. for continued developmental and engineering work on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
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Phoenix Missile Hypersonic Testbed
Researchers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, Calif., are investigating the use of surplus demilitarized Navy AIM-54 Phoenix air-launched missiles as possible hypersonic test platforms or testbeds.
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2006 – A Year of Challenge and Accomplishment at NASA Dryden
A year of challenge, a year of transition, a year of accomplishment – that was 2006 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base.
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Learning NASA History Pays Off For Students
Would you like to win a NASA flight jacket? That was the question posed to students across the United States by the education office at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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NASA Dryden Awards Consulting Engineering Contracts
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded contracts to five companies for professional engineering and management services to aid the center in acquiring world-class flight research, test and operational-oriented projects.
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NASA Supports UAS Fire Mapping Efforts on California Fire
A team led by NASA and U.S. Forest Service scientists recently collected real-time, visible and infrared data from sensors onboard a remotely piloted aircraft over the Esperanza Fire in Southern California.
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Five High-Tech Firms Receive SBIR Contracts From NASA Dryden
Five small high-technology firms have been selected by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center for research and development contracts under Phase II of NASA's Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program.
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NASA Dryden's Jim Sokolik Reaches Unique ER-2 Milestone
Jim Sokolik recently became the man who launched 1,000 ships.
Well, not exactly sea-going ships. Sokolik reached his personal milestone by launching his 1,000th mission when one of the two ER-2 aircraft that NASA Dryden Flight Research Center operates for NASA's high-altitude science program took to the sky in mid-September. -
Gulfstream, NASA Dryden Joust with Supersonic Shockwaves
Gulfstream Aerospace and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center have teamed in a project called Quiet SpikeTM to investigate the suppression of sonic booms.
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Fuel-Cell Flier
California students among the first to fly a fuel cell-powered aircraft.
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50th Anniversary of the X-2
Two aerospace milestones that involved both triumph and tragedy.
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DARPA, NASA Dryden Joint Effort
First Hands-Off Autonomous Aerial Refueling
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NASA Dryden Sponsors Student Historical Essay Competition
Would you like to win a NASA flight jacket? That is one of the prizes in a national history competition for students in grades five through 12 sponsored by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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NASA Names Orion Contractor
Orion is the central member of a family of spacecraft and shuttle-derived launchers that will go to the moon and Mars.
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Native American Students Excited By NASA Astronaut Visit
"When I was eight years old, I sat in a cardboard refrigerator box and dreamed of going to the moon".
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SR-71 Blackbird Simulator Leaves NASA Dryden for New Home
One of the last vestiges of the SR-71 high-speed flight project at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center was hauled away on a flatbed truck in early July.
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NASA'S Vision For Space Exploration Exhibit
Visitors to this year's Antelope Valley Fair in Lancaster can take a journey into a virtual reality solar system.
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Composite Creations
NASA Dryden develops new fabrication capability
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At NASA Exhibit, What Goes Up Must... Well... Go Up
It takes a lot of crane to lift a three-and-a-half-ton space shuttle main engine up from its trailer.