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'Flying without Wings' in Focus at NASA'S Palmdale Gallery
Wen Painter, former lifting body project engineer, will discuss the famous wingless lifting bodies at the NASA Aerospace Exploration Gallery.
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NASA Dryden Awards Engineering & Tech Support Pact to Boeing
Specialized research aircraft contract could be worth up to $28 million.
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'Rocket Boy' to NASA Engineer
Homer Hickam shares his memoir.
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Ikhana UAV Gives NASA New Science and Technology Capabilities
The inventory of research aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has grown by one with the acquisition of a Predator B unmanned aircraft system.
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Two Test Pilots Join NASA Dryden's Flight Operations Staff
Two new research test pilots, Kelly Latimer and Nils Larson, have joined the Flight Crew Branch at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base.
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Two NASA Dryden Small Business Tech Transfer Projects Funded
Two proposals submitted by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are among 18 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) advanced concept flight research proposals selected by NASA for Phase 2 contract negotiations.
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Astronaut Vance Brand To Speak At NASA's Palmdale Gallery
Former Apollo-Soyuz and space shuttle astronaut Vance Brand will discuss his space travels the afternoon of Saturday, April 21, at the NASA Aerospace Exploration Gallery in the Palmdale Civic Center.
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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