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US, Indonesian Students Discuss Robotics Via DLN
Members of Dryden-supported high school robotics teams discussed their common interest in robotics with Indonesian students via a Distance Learning Network video link.
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Flight Control Technology Enters Hall of Fame
Digital Fly-By-Wire technology pioneered in the 1970s at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has been inducted into the Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame.
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USRA Issues First SOFIA Call for Proposals
The Universities Space Research Association has issued the first call for proposals to the astronomical science community for use of the SOFIA airborne observatory.
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NASA's Global Hawk Completes Second GloPac Science Flight
NASA's Global Hawk environmental science aircraft took to the skies again April 13 on the second flight in the 2010 Global Hawk Pacific (GloPac) atmospheric sampling mission.
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X-48B BWB Team Completes Phase 1 Test Flights
NASA and The Boeing Company have completed the first phase of flight tests on the subscale X-48B blended wing body aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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Four NASA Dryden-supported Robotics Teams Heading to Atlanta
Four of the five Southern California high school robotics teams sponsored or supported by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are heading to the FIRST national robotics championship competition in Atlanta, Ga., April 15 to 17.
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NASA's Unpiloted Global Hawk Completes First Science Flight
NASA has successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the Pacific Ocean. The flight April 7 was the first of five scheduled for this month's Global Hawk Pacific, or GloPac, mission.
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Pad Abort Flight Test Set for May 6 at White Sands Missile Range
Final preparations are under way for NASA's latest flight test for future human space exploration — the Pad Abort-1, or PA-1, flight test of a launch abort system, scheduled for May 6 at the Orion Abort Flight Test Launch Complex 32E at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, N.M.
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SOFIA Resumes Flight Tests Leading to Initial Science Flights
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – SOFIA – resumed flight envelope expansion test flights over the past two weeks.
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FIRST High School Robotics Competitions Heating Up
All three high school robotics teams supported by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center were in action at FIRST Robotics regional meets during the third and fourth weekends of March.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Wife, Pilot, Literary Light
"She was very intelligent, shy, self-conscious and quiet," said National Air and Space Museum aeronautics curator Dorothy Cochrane of the late Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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Former X-15 Pilot Maj. Gen. Robert White Dies
Former Air Force Flight Test Center commander and X-15 rocket plane pilot Maj. Gen. Robert M. White died March 17 at the age of 85.
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NASA Dryden Assists in Global Observer Wing Structural Loads Tests
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center is supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) on the Global Observer Joint Capability Technology Demonstration program.
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Stiff Competition for Dryden-sponsored Robotics Teams
High school robotics teams sponsored or supported by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are finding the competition at the FIRST Robotics regional games to be intense.
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NASA Dryden Hosts AAUW Tech Trek for Middle School Girls
More than 40 seventh-grade girls visited NASA Dryden during their AAUW Tech Trek tour.
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Famed Aerospace Artist Robert McCall Dies
Famed aerospace artist Robert T. McCall, who created murals of aerospace history for aerospace museums and movies, including three works for NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, died Friday, Feb. 26 in Scottsdale, Ariz., at the age of 90.
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Bill Brockett: Knowledge of, Passion for Science
"If I had not become a pilot, I probably would have been a scientist," says NASA research pilot William F. "Bill" Brockett.
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Dryden-sponsored High School Robotics Teams Unveil 2010 Creations
Several high school robotics teams sponsored or supported in part by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center rolled out their 2010 robots in mid-February.
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NASA Wraps Up Radar Studies in Central America
NASA's Gulfstream III environmental research aircraft returned to its base at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., Feb. 15 after a three-week campaign of radar imaging flights over Central America and the island of Hispaniola.
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NASA Dryden Awards Support Contract to Media Fusion
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a firm fixed-price contract to Media Fusion, Inc., of Huntsville, Ala., for administrative and technical services at the center, effective March 1.
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