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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
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Space Shuttle Update - August 22
The Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery arrived back at the Kennedy Space Center after a three-day cross-country ferry flight from Edwards Air Force Base.
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Brand Honored At Jethawks' Aerospace Appreciation Night
Former Apollo-Soyuz and Space Shuttle astronaut Vance Brand was honored this past weekend by the Lancaster Jethawks Class A California League baseball team during its annual Aerospace Appreciation Night.
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NASA's two F-15 research aircraft
NASA's two F-15 research aircraft don't get a lot of flight hours, and it's even less frequent that they are in the air together on the same mission.
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Space Shuttle launch viewed live at AirVenture
Visitors and NASA employees cheer Discovery launch.
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NASA'S ER-2 Flies Over Hurricane Emily's Eye
As Hurricane Emily lashes the coast of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, a high-flying NASA ER-2 earth sciences aircraft from the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., flew high over the storm as it moved across the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Mexico.
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NASA Funds Exploratory Studies For Quieting Sonic Boom
NASA and several industry teams are studying how to design and build an aircraft that could demonstrate technology to lessen the noise and window-rattling effects of supersonic flight.
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Local Elementary Teachers At NASA Dryden For Math/Science Workshop
Fifty teachers will spend a day this week exploring the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., as part of a larger educational program funded through the California Department of Education.
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Dryden to Host Media Briefing, Tour on Shuttle Preparations July 6.
NASA's Return-to-Flight Space Shuttle mission, designated STS-114, is tentatively set for mid-July. The shuttle orbiter Discovery will be launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is scheduled to land there about 12 days later.
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NASA Dryden's Kevin Walsh withdraws from Race Across America
NASA Dryden aerospace engineer Kevin Walsh withdrew from the Race Across America cross-country bicycle race Thursday due to respiratory difficulties and exhaustion.
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Teachers Attend NASA 'Explorer School' Math/Science Workshop
Sixteen teachers from 10 states are participating this week in a workshop at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards designed to aid educators in incorporating NASA-based material into their science and math curriculum.
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NASA Spacecraft Measures Unusual 2005 Arctic Ozone Conditions
NASA's Aura spacecraft showed that other atmospheric processes restored ozone amounts to near average and stopped high levels of harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching Earth's surface.
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Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chairman Visits NASA Dryden
Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, was briefed by X-43A engineer Laurie Grindle during a tour of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center June 2.
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NASA Dryden's Gwen Young: Diversity is Her Strength
Gwen's Young's life has been anything but ordinary since she joined NASA as a Presidential Management Intern at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. some 22 years ago.
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NASA Dryden's Trong Bui Selected for NAFP Fellowship
Trong Bui, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, will have the opportunity to share some of the most current NASA engineering technology at two regional universities following his selection as a 2005 NASA Administrator's Fellowship Program (NAFP) Fellow.
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Media Credential Deadlines for Space Shuttle Mission STS-114 Extended
Following the postponement of the Space Shuttle Return-to-Flight Mission STS-114 from May to July, NASA is extending the deadline for news media organizations to seek credentials for on-site coverage of the event at the Kennedy and Johnson Space Centers and Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Menlo Park Technology Firm Awarded NASA Research Grant
A Menlo Park high-technology firm has won a NASA research grant under the aerospace agency's Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) program that could improve the efficiency of computer flight simulation for a wide variety of aircraft.
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NASA and NOAA join in UAV flight demonstration
NASA's pioneering work with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could boost the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's quest for life-saving atmospheric and environmental information.
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Harford Technology Firm Receives NASA Research Grant
A high-technology firm in Harford, N.Y., has won a NASA research grant under the aerospace agency's Small Business Technology Transfer