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INSPIRE Student Interns Learning Flight Test First-Hand
Student interns in NASA’s INSPIRE program are learning first-hand about the process of flight testing experimental aircraft this summer at NASA Dryden.
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X-15 Program Contributed to Apollo Lunar Missions
North American Aviation X-15 rocket planes served as flying laboratories above the reaches of the atmosphere.
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NASA’s G-III Radar to Image Volcanic Activity in Alaska, Cascades
NASA's Gulfstream III departs the Dryden Flight Research Center on July 21 for Anchorage, Alaska.
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Illinois University Student Fulfills Dream at NASA
Citing a visit to the NASA craftsmen exhibit at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture airshow, at Oshkosh, Wisc., David Klassman decided he wanted to work for NASA.
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NASA Dryden Supporting Palmdale's Thursday Nights on the Square
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center is supporting the City of Palmdale's annual Thursday Nights on the Square in the Palmdale Civic Center.
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NASA’s ER-2 Gathers Forest and Cloud Data
One of NASA’s two ER-2 Earth resources aircraft soars over the crowd during the 2009 Air Force Material Command’s Freedom’s Call Tattoo.
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NASA Completes Icelandic Portion of Arctic Ice Radar Mission
By June 8, NASA’s UAVSAR team had completed all the objectives of the Arctic Ice Radar Mission in Greenland and flew to Keflavik International Airport to measure the topography and 3D surface velocities of the temperate ice caps of Iceland.
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Patented NASA Technology Enables Real-Time View of Objects Under Stress
Imagine wind turbine blades that can automatically adjust their shape in real time to produce more energy.
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Scientists Search for a Pulse Above Earthquake Area
A new NASA 3-D airborne radar, capable of seeing below the surface, will study earthquake faults in California.
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NASA Co-Op Intern Krystal Gunter Reaching for the Stars
As a nine-year old, Krystal Gunter was up at 4 a.m. one morning to watch a space shuttle fly over her home on its approach to a landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Since then, the Corpus Christi, Texas, native has aspired to work for NASA.
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Supersonic Diving: Quieting the Boom
Sonic booms are a part of life at Edwards Air Force Base and in surrounding communities, so booms generated on June 11 by two NASA Dryden Flight Research Center F/A-18s went relatively unnoticed.
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Astronomers Assess SOFIA Telescope Systems
Astronomers for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, program recently conducted five nights of telescope testing
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NASA Dryden to Host 2009 Power Beaming Challenge
NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program, NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and the Spaceward Foundation have announced that the 2009 Power-Beaming Challenge, part of Spaceward’s Space Elevator Games, will be held at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center.
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NASA's Space Shuttle Returns To Earth After Hubble Mission
Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew landed at 8:39 a.m. PDT Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Legend Begins - The Maiden Flight of the X-15
On June 8, 1959, a sleek black rocket plane was carried aloft beneath the wing of a B-52.
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Fullerton, Casani Receive Lifetime Award
The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Lifetime Achievement, the museum's highest honor, has been awarded to two distinguished NASA recipients, former astronaut and research pilot C. Gordon Fullerton and planetary scientist John R. Casani.
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Arctic Trek to 'Break the Ice' on New NASA Airborne Radars
A team of scientists have embarked on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland.
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NASA ER-2 Collects Dust from the Cosmos
A NASA ER-2 science aircraft from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center is flying a series of cosmic dust collection missions April 27 through May 8, 2009 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Afterburner: Keeping the Flame Burning at NASA Dryden
Jet engines are extremely sophisticated, exactingly engineered marvels of modern ingenuity. Henry Hernandez, chief of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's jet engine shop, knows those marvels well.
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Embry-Riddle Engineering Student Blends Art, Science at NASA
Kerianne Hobbs' first memory of NASA was a family visit to NASA's Johnson Space Center when she was six.
 "Students in the INSPIRE internship program at NASA Dryden check out one of the two radio-controlled model aircraft before flight tests on Rosamond Dry Lake.")