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AFRL-NASA ACAT Team Wins Av Week Laureate Award
An Air Force-NASA team was recently honored for its work on technology that automatically prevents controlled flight into terrain by fighter aircraft.
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NASA Global Hawk Completes Atmospheric Rivers Study
A NASA Global Hawk aircraft completed the third and final flight of the Winter Storms and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers, or WISPAR, field campaign on March 10.
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SOFIA Gets a Shower
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, 747 is bathed by water from the Air Force Plant 42 fire department outside the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., during recent leak checks of the observatory's telescope cavity door.
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Bikle's Altitude Record a Tribute to Determination
Fifty years ago, on Feb. 25, 1961, former NASA Flight Research Center director Paul Bikle began a sailplane flight to set an altitude record that lasted for 25 years.
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NASA's DC-8 Flying Lab Supported Glory Launch Attempt
NASA Dryden's DC-8 airborne laboratory provided telemetry relay support to the abortive Glory science satellite mission launch attempt on March 4.
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Prep Robotics Teams Unveil their 2011 Creations
Robotics teams from Lancaster and Tehachapi high schools unveiled and demonstrated the capabilities of their electro-mechanical inventions for the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition.
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NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver visits Dryden
NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver updated Dryden employees on NASA's outlook for the next few years during a town hall presentation Feb. 22.
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NASA Dryden Flies New Supersonic Shockwave Probes
NASA Dryden is flight testing two Eagle Aero supersonic shockwave probes on its F-15B aircraft to determine their viability as research tools.
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NASA's Global Hawk Flies Atmospheric Rivers Mission
NASA’s Global Hawk is the centerpiece of NOAA's Winter Storms and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers environmental research mission, a planned three-week campaign to study "rivers in the sky."
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Going Green: the Bohn-Meyer Math-Science Odyssey
NASA Dryden life-support technician Sean Wilscam assists a student in suiting up in a pilot's G-suit during the Bohn-Meyer Math and Science Odyssey.
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GREAT Spectrometer Installed on SOFIA Observatory
The German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies, or GREAT, instrument has been mounted on the SOFIA flying observatory for initial tests.
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Flight Opportunities Program Hosts Industry Day
More than 20 aerospace firms large and small were represented at a recent NASA Flight Opportunities Program at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Taking the 'Boom' Out of Sonic Booms
NASA Dryden sonic boom researcher Ed Haering answers questions on NASA sonic boom research during a NASA.gov web chat Jan. 25.
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NASA Airborne Observatory’s Past Unearthed
Fifteen years after its final flight, veterans of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, or KAO, gathered at NASA's Ames Research Center Nov. 10, 2010 to witness the opening of a time capsule.
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Bohn-Meyer Math-Science Odyssey at AV College Feb. 4
More than 200 seventh-graders will experience hands-on learning activities during the Bohn-Meyer Math-Science Odyssey Feb. 4 at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, Calif.
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JPL, Dryden Showcased in Artistic Aerospace Photo Exhibit
The symmetry of Dryden's "blue room" control room was seen by photographer Michael Salvatore Tierney.
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NASA's White Charger to the Rescue
Landing an ER-2, NASA's long-winged, high-altitude Earth science aircraft can be tricky.
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NASA Dryden Names New Chief of Education Office
Texas educator William R. “Russ” Claughton has been selected to lead the Office of Education at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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SonicBREWS: Brewing Up an Earthquake Warning System
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center is evaluating Seismic Warning Systems’ QuakeGuard™ earthquake warning system to determine if sonic booms cause the devices to register false alarms.
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SOFIA Opens New Window on Star Formation in Orion
A mid-infrared mosaic image from the SOFIA observatory offers new information about star formation processes in the Messier 42 nebula in the Orion constellation.