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Aerospace Walk of Honor inducts James McDivitt
Retired NASA Apollo program astronaut James McDivitt was inducted into the Aerospace Walk of Honor in Lancaster City, Calif. on Sept. 19, 2009.
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NASA Dryden Awards Facilities Maintenance Pact to EMCOR
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a contract to EMCOR Government Services, of Arlington, Va., to provide facility operations and maintenance at the center’s facilities at Edwards Air Force Base and Palmdale, Ca.
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Commemorative Moon Tree Planted
Retired NASA astronaut Gordon Fullerton, Lancaster vice-mayor Ron Smith, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan and NASA Dryden acting deputy director Gwen Young join retired NASA astronaut James McDivitt in wielding shovels at the planting of a commemorative moon tree.
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The X-15, the Pilot and the Space Shuttle
Fifty years later, X-15 test pilot and former space shuttle commander Joe Engle recalls the highs and lows of this unique, high-speed research aircraft.
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Space Shuttle Discovery Returns To Earth After Successful Mission
Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 5.7 million miles with a 5:53 p.m. PDT / 8:53 p.m. EDT landing Friday at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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NASA Awards SOFIA Engineering Contract Option
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a contract modification to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P., of Waco, Texas, for further developmental engineering on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
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NASA to Conduct Sonic Boom Research Over Edwards AFB
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center will conduct a series of research flights on Sept. 9 and 12 that will result in multiple sonic booms being heard on Edwards Air Force Base.
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NASA Awards Aircraft Maintenance Pact to Computer Sciences Corp
NASA has awarded a follow-on contract to Computer Sciences Corp.'s Applied Technology Group of Fort Worth, Texas, to support the agency's aircraft used for astronaut training, flight research and mission and program support.
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Orion Abort Flight Test Crew Module Departs Dryden For White Sands
The Orion crew module that will be used for the first launch abort system Pad Abort 1 flight test is scheduled to depart NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center Aug. 19 for the White Sands Missile Range, N.M., where the launch abort flight tests will be performed.
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Aerospace Appreciation Night Flyover
Framed by the flags fluttering over the outfield fence, NASA Dryden T-38 and F/A-18 aircraft performed a low-level flyby past Clear Channel Stadium in Lancaster, Calif., the evening of Aug. 15 as part of the Lancaster JetHawks Aerospace Appreciation Night.
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NASA Astronaut Vance Brand Plants ‘Moon Tree’ in Palmdale
Retired NASA Astronaut Vance Brand, (center), assisted by Steve Schmidt, director of NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility and Mayor James Ledford of the City of Palmdale, Calif., planted a "Moon Tree" sycamore sapling at the AERO Institute in the Palmdale Civic Center.
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Lancaster Jethawks Honor Last SR-71 Flight Crews
The last four crew members who flew aboard the famed triple-sonic Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird aircraft will be honored this Saturday evening, Aug. 15, by the Lancaster JetHawks baseball team during the team’s annual Aerospace Appreciation Weekend at Clear Channel Stadium in Lancaster.
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Rake Airflow Gage Experiment Flies Again on NASA F-15B
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently conducted a flight test of an airflow-measurement device mounted underneath its F-15B research aircraft in the Rake Airflow Gage Experiment, or RAGE.
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NASA's G-III and UAVSAR Conducting East Coast Vegetation Study
NASA's Gulfstream-III environmental science research aircraft is conducting a two-week radar imaging mission along the East Coast.
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Collision Avoidance Technology Flying Again at Dryden
Dryden is working with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop collision avoidance technologies for fighter/attack aircraft that would reduce the risk of ground and mid-air collisions in the Fighter Risk Reduction Project.
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NASA Student Airborne Research Program Takes Flight
Twenty-nine undergraduate and graduate students are participating in a six-week NASA Airborne Science field experience designed to immerse them in NASA's Earth Science research.
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The LLRV / LLTV – Preparing Apollo’s Astronauts for Landing on the Moon
Following the challenge by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth, two separate entities began working on a way to prepare astronauts for the critical descent and landing on the moon. The problems facing them were considerable: how to build a free-flying simulator that could negate 5/6ths of the Earth's gravity while entirely eliminating the effects of the atmosphere, since the moon had no atmosphere and only 1/6th of Earth's gravity.
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NASA Dryden Participating in Airventure 2009 at Oskosh
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is again participating in America's largest air show.
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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.