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Local Teachers Fly Experiment On NASA's 'Weightless Wonder'
Two science teachers from Gifford C. Cole Middle School in east Lancaster are taking their experiments out of the classroom and into NASA's "Weightless Wonder," a flying microgravity laboratory.
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NASA Dryden's Vance Brand Honored As Ambassador Of Exploration
Former NASA astronaut Vance Brand is being honored by the nation's aerospace agency as an Ambassador of Exploration for his involvement in the Apollo space program in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Dryden Videographer Lori Losey Wins Aviation Week Photo Award
Videographer Lori Losey has captured some spectacular video footage during her 17 years documenting flight research for NASA at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
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2005 - A Year Of Challenges, Accomplishments, Honors At NASA Dryden
The safe landing of the space shuttle Discovery and the presentation of astronaut wings to three civilian research pilots who flew the X-15 rocket plane highlighted a year of challenge and accomplishment at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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NASA Dryden Engineer Honored by Mexican-American Engineering Group
An aerospace engineer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has been named the recipient of the National Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES) top award for 2005.
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Altair UAV Flies Lengthy Science Missions For NOAA
The NOAA and NASA concluded a joint series of environmental science demonstration flights with the Altair UAV in mid-November.
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Associate Administrator Briefed at Dryden
Scott Horowitz of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate was briefed on NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's capabilities to support the agency's space exploration goals
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Author James Hansen Outlines Early Career Of Neil Armstrong At Dryden
Historian James Hansen, author of the recently published biography of Neil Armstrong "First Man," outlined highlights of Armstrong's seven years as a research pilot and engineer.
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NASA Touts Its Research Tools At Long Beach Aerospace Testing Expo
Supersonic research aircraft and legendary wind tunnels are the exotic tools being promoted by NASA engineers and pilots at Aerospace Testing Expo 2005
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X-43A Hypersonic Program Wins NASA's Top Administrator's Award
NASA's Turning Goals into Reality program has recognized the Hyper-X Program Team with its highest aeronautical honor, the Administrators Award.
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Catching Heat Waves
Thermals might assist UAVs.
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Dreams of Jeannie: NASA on Classic TV
NASA on Classic TV
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Neil Armstrong Recalls Test Pilot Days
Astronaut Armstrong recalls the organization's origins.
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Former NASA Pilot Ed Schneider Inducted Into Aerospace Walk Of Honor
The City of Lancaster, Calif., inducted former NASA research pilot Edward T. Schneider into its Aerospace Walk of Honor Sept. 24.
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'Fast Eddie' Joins Pilots Walk of Honor
NASA Pilot Joins Walk of Honor
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Cal Poly Students Participate in NASA Flight Research Test
Aerospace engineering students spent a recent Saturday on a lake -- not sailing but helping NASA study aircraft takeoff and landing noise.
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Pathfinder Plus Solar Aircraft Completes Turbulence Tests At Dryden
The Pathfinder-Plus solar-electric flying wing recently completed a short series of research flights from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to investigate the effects of turbulence on lightweight flexible wing structures
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Forecasting for Flight
When NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and AeroVironment, Inc. flew the company's Pathfinder-Plus solar-electric aircraft recently, the weather mattered; it mattered a lot.
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X-15 Space Pioneers Now Honored as Astronauts
In a turbulent era of 1960s Cold War confrontations, moon race headlines, and war in southeast Asia, eight military and civilian test pilots flew the radical X-15 rocket plane out of the atmosphere and into the record books, earning astronaut status.
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Paintbrush and Mouse
NASA Artists a Study in Contrasts