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NASA Completes ADS-B Flight Evaluations for UAS
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently completed flight evaluations of the ADS-B aircraft tracking system adapted for unmanned aircraft systems.
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Boeing's Phantom Eye Prototype Makes First Flight →
Unique autonomous unmanned aircraft system completes 28-minute flight June 1 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base.
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NASA DC-8, NCAR G-V Continue Bumpy Science Flights
Two flying science laboratories fly around thunderstorm cores and anvil clouds over the central U.S. during NCAR's DC3 atmospheric science campaign.
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SNC's Dream Chaser Hits Captive-Carry Milestone
Dream Chaser vehicle being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation's Space Systems division completes captive-carry test for NASA's CCDev2 Program.
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Dryden Facilities Support Center Walls Going Up
Masons have begun erecting the concrete-block walls of the new $11.2 million Facilities Support Center at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Robotics Demo at Dryden: Slam Dunk With No Hands
High school robotics teams show off their skills and those of their electro-mechanical creations at a demonstration for NASA Dryden employees.
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NASA ER-2 809 Back in Air After Major Maintenance
NASA's ER-2 Earth Resources aircraft No. 809 is back on flight status after completion of a year of modified periodic maintenance.
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Second Set of SBLT Tests Planned on NASA's F-15B
Aerion Corporation plans flight tests of a representative airfoil for its proposed supersonic bizjet this summer on NASA Dryden's F-15B Test Bed.
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Book Details Human Factors in Aerospace Accidents
Breaking the Mishap Chain relates human factors lessons learned from case studies of research and flight test mishaps that could have been prevented.
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Midwest Atmospheric Chemistry Field Campaign Begins
NASA's DC-8 science laboratory flying out of Salina, Kan., during seven-week NCAR, NASA and NSF Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry field campaign.
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NASA Social: Behind the Scenes at Dryden
Followers of NASA's social media accounts get an all-day behind-the-scenes look and the planes, people and projects that make up NASA Dryden.
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NASA's ER-2 Completes MABEL Validation Deployment
The weather, the aircraft and the science instruments cooperated to successfully validate data from the MABEL laser altimeter planned for IceSat-2.
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Space Shuttle Enterprise Arrives in New York City
Space shuttle Enterprise and its NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft fly over the Hudson River and New York before landing at Kennedy Airport April 27.
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Area Robotics Teams Compete at FIRST Championships
Four high school robotics teams co-sponsored by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are competing at the FIRST Robotics championship this weekend.
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Air Force' First C-17 Flies into Retirement
NASA Dryden's chief pilot part of flight crew as C-17 Globemaster "T-1" concludes 21-year flight test and research career for the Air Force and NASA.
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Discovery Transferred to NASM's Udvar-Hazy Center
Space shuttle Discovery is now part of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum exhibits at the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.
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Discovery Hitches a Ride Into History on SCA 905
Space shuttle Discovery's final ferry flight concludes when its 747 carrier landed at Dulles Airport near Washington at 11:05 a.m. EDT April 17.
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SOFIA Observatory Featured in Astrophysical Journal
Observations made with NASA's SOFIA airborne telescope are the subject of a special edition of the respected astronomical research publication.
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SOFIA Observatory to Get New Wideband Camera
Second-generation High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera provides a sensitive, versatile and reliable imaging capability to the SOFIA astronomers
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Good Ice Sheet Data Obtained on MABEL Flights
Recent validation flights of the MABEL laser altimeter on NASA's ER-2 are recording data on sea and land-ice elevation and thickness.