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  • Artists concept of new Consolidated Information Technology Center to be built at NASA’S Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base.

    Groundbreaking Set for NASA Dryden Information Technology Building

    Groundbreaking ceremonies are scheduled for 9 a.m. Oct. 14 for a new Consolidated Information Technology Center to be built at NASA’S Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base.

  • NASA supersonics project personnel brief ICAO team members at an instrumented Edwards AFB house prior to sonic boom measurement flights on Sept. 9, 2009.

    ICAO Team Witnesses NASA Sonic Boom Research Flights

    Members of the United Nations-affiliated International Civil Aviation Organization, or ICAO, monitored a series of sonic boom research flights conducted by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Sept. 9.

  • A group of middle school students gather around Dryden life support technician Jim Sokolik as he explains the workings of a high-altitude pilot's pressure suit.

    NASA Dryden participates in annual Salute to Youth

    NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center was well represented at the 2009 Salute to Youth career fair in Palmdale, Calif., Sept. 18. Not only was the 18th annual student career fair centered at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility and nearby Bldg. 704 adjacent to Air Force Plant 42, but several Dryden employees staffed several of the more than 100 exhibits and information tables at the event.

  • ER-2 in flight

    NASA’s ER-2 Flying Tropospheric Lidar Instrument Demonstrations

    NASA's ER-2 high-altitude aircraft is flying engineering demonstration flights during September of the Tropospheric Wind Lidar Technology Experiment, or TWiLiTE, developed by scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

  • Retired NASA Apollo program astronaut James McDivitt (right) is presented with a medal by Ron Smith, vice-mayor of the City of Lancaster, Calif., at the city’s Aerospace Walk of Honor induction ceremonies Sept. 19.

    Aerospace Walk of Honor inducts James McDivitt

    Retired NASA Apollo program astronaut James McDivitt was inducted into the Aerospace Walk of Honor in Lancaster City, Calif. on Sept. 19, 2009.

  • aerial view of main buildings and hangars at dryden flight research center.

    NASA Dryden Awards Facilities Maintenance Pact to EMCOR

    NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a contract to EMCOR Government Services, of Arlington, Va., to provide facility operations and maintenance at the center’s facilities at Edwards Air Force Base and Palmdale, Ca.

  • NASA and Lancaster officials planting moon tree

    Commemorative Moon Tree Planted

    Retired NASA astronaut Gordon Fullerton, Lancaster vice-mayor Ron Smith, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan and NASA Dryden acting deputy director Gwen Young join retired NASA astronaut James McDivitt in wielding shovels at the planting of a commemorative moon tree.

  • The X-15 research aircraft on its first powered flight on Sept. 17, 1959.

    The X-15, the Pilot and the Space Shuttle

    Fifty years later, X-15 test pilot and former space shuttle commander Joe Engle recalls the highs and lows of this unique, high-speed research aircraft.

  • Space shuttle Discovery lands

    Space Shuttle Discovery Returns To Earth After Successful Mission

    Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 5.7 million miles with a 5:53 p.m. PDT / 8:53 p.m. EDT landing Friday at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

  • SOFIA infrared observatory 747SP overflies the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility.

    NASA Awards SOFIA Engineering Contract Option

    NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a contract modification to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P.for further developmental engineering on SOFIA.

  • F-18s in flight

    NASA to Conduct Sonic Boom Research Over Edwards AFB

    NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center will conduct a series of research flights on Sept. 9 and 12 that will result in multiple sonic booms being heard on Edwards Air Force Base.

  • Dryden Flight Research Center - aircraft fleet on ramp

    NASA Awards Aircraft Maintenance Pact to Computer Sciences Corp

    NASA has awarded a follow-on contract to Computer Sciences Corp.'s Applied Technology Group of Fort Worth, Texas, to support the agency's aircraft used for astronaut training, flight research and mission and program support.

  • G-III shows off its new paint job.

    NASA Dryden's Second G-III Shows its Colors

    NASA Dryden's second Gulfstream III, tail number 803, recently rolled out of the Edwards Air Force Base paint hangar sporting a new paint job.

  • Technicians at NASA Dryden install the goalpost fixture to the Orion crew module integration stand during conversion of the stand into a transportation fixture for airlift of the module to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

    Orion Abort Flight Test Crew Module Departs Dryden For White Sands

    The Orion crew module that will be used for the first launch abort system Pad Abort 1 flight test is scheduled to depart NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center Aug. 19 for the White Sands Missile Range, N.M., where the launch abort flight tests will be performed.

  • Rafe Day and Daniel Tkacik aboard DC-8

    Down Syndrome Lab Assistant Flies on NASA DC-8

    Rafe Day wasn't the typical Earth scientist flying on NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory this summer.

  • Framed by the flags fluttering over the outfield fence, NASA Dryden T-38 and F/A-18 aircraft performed a low-level flyby past Clear Channel Stadium in Lancaster, Calif., the evening of Aug. 15 as part of the Lancaster JetHawks Aerospace Appreciation Night.

    Aerospace Appreciation Night Flyover

    Framed by the flags fluttering over the outfield fence, NASA Dryden T-38 and F/A-18 aircraft performed a low-level flyby past Clear Channel Stadium in Lancaster, Calif., the evening of Aug. 15 as part of the Lancaster JetHawks Aerospace Appreciation Night.

  • Retired NASA Astronaut Vance Brand, (center), assisted by Steve Schmidt, director of NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility and Mayor James Ledford of the City of Palmdale, Calif., planted a Moon Tree sycamore sapling at the AERO Institute in the Palmdale Civic Center during ceremonies Thursday evening, Aug. 13.

    NASA Astronaut Vance Brand Plants ‘Moon Tree’ in Palmdale

    Retired NASA Astronaut Vance Brand, (center), assisted by Steve Schmidt, director of NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility and Mayor James Ledford of the City of Palmdale, Calif., planted a "Moon Tree" sycamore sapling at the AERO Institute in the Palmdale Civic Center.

  • Flight test engineers Marta Bohn-Meyer and Bob Meyer and research pilots Eddie Schneider and Rogers Smith who flew the famed SR-71 Blackbird during high-speed research experiments at NASA Dryden during the 1990s.

    Lancaster Jethawks Honor Last SR-71 Flight Crews

    The last four crew members who flew aboard the famed triple-sonic Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird aircraft will be honored this Saturday evening, Aug. 15, by the Lancaster JetHawks baseball team during the team’s annual Aerospace Appreciation Weekend at Clear Channel Stadium in Lancaster.

  • Fullerton talks with cooperative education student Erin Waggoner.

    Apollo's Legacy: Moon Missions Continue To Inspire The World

    Retired NASA astronaut, space shuttle commander and research pilot Gordon Fullerton discussed the legacy of the Apollo 11 moon landing recently before a standing-room-only audience of employees and educators at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center.

  • A Dryden technician checks out the rake portion of the Rake Airflow Gage Experiment.

    Rake Airflow Gage Experiment Flies Again on NASA F-15B

    NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently conducted a flight test of an airflow-measurement device mounted underneath its F-15B research aircraft in the Rake Airflow Gage Experiment, or RAGE.