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David McBride Appointed Deputy Director at NASA Dryden
David D. McBride has been appointed deputy director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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Shuttle Mode VII Exercise
Edwards Air Force Base and NASA Dryden personnel held a Shuttle Mode VII exercise on Oct. 25th designed to practice transporting rescue crews via four helicopters to difficult-to-access Shuttle landin...
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Final Flight of the X-15 Left a Legacy of Success
If residents of Western Nevada had looked high up in the sky on the morning of Oct. 24, 1968, they might have seen the sun glinting off the fuselage of a silver, eight-engine NB-52A Stratofortress as it made a graceful turn over Smith Ranch Dry Lake.
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Scientists Selected for New Airborne Eye on the Universe
Three astronomers to participate in first scientific observations to be conducted by the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
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NASA Reinstalls Main Mirror in SOFIA Airborne Observatory
Engineers and technicians from NASA, the German Space Agency and the Deutsches SOFIA Institut recently reinstalled the German-built primary mirror assembly into NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, airborne observatory.
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Orion Gets a Lift
Recently, the Orion pad abort crew module was lifted by crane and placed on instrumented jacks at NASA Dryden to determine the vehicle's weight, balance and vertical center of gravity.
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Management Appointments Announced at NASA Dryden
Kevin L. Petersen, Director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, recently announced appointments to several management positions at the NASA field center.
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Re-entry Breakup of Jules Verne ATV-1
The breakup and fragmentation of the European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle was captured in dramatic fashion by scientists aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory and a Gulfstream V aircraft as it re-entered the atmosphere early Monday morning over the South Pacific.
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NASA's Ikhana UAS resumes Western States Fire Mission flights
NASA's Ikhana UAS resumes Western States Fire Mission flights
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Newly Coated Mirror Assembly Returns
The newly coated telescope mirror assembly for SOFIA is unloaded from a C-17 aircraft at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility prior to re-installation.
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The Last Rocketeer: Pink Boots and Yellow Daisies
On the morning of Sept. 23, 1975, a team of engineers, technicians and flight crew busily prepared for the final rocket-powered flight of the X-24B, the last of the wingless lifting bodies.
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Tehachapi High Grad Awarded NASA Dryden Scholarship
Jill Pestana, a graduate of the Class of 2008 at Tehachapi High School, has been selected by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Employee Exchange Council to receive the 2008 Harold W. Walker Memorial Scholarship award.
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The M2-F1: 'Look Ma! No Wings!'
The planned retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2010 will bring to a close an era that opened in the high desert of Southern California nearly a half century ago.
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Lancaster High Grad Brian Armstrong Interning at NASA Dryden
NASA intern Brian Armstrong has always been interested in aviation, thanks to the influence of his aerospace engineer father.
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NASA Awards Global Hawk Contract to Northrop
Dryden has awarded a multi-year contract to Northrop for engineering and technical services in support of the center's planned operation of two Global Hawk aircraft.
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Local College Student is Summer Intern at NASA Field Center
University of Utah student Patricia Oliphant, shown here in the pilot's seat of one of NASA's modified 747 Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, is working as a summer intern at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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Shuttle Exercise Clears Edwards for Landing →
Military medics place a volunteer "astronaut" into a UH-1H Iroquois medivac helicopter during a simulated space shuttle landing mishap July 26. NASA requires the base to conduct two training exercises a year to ensure its capabilities to support off-nominal shuttle landings still meet NASA's standards. U.S. Air Force photo / Mike Cassidy.
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Local College Student is Summer Intern at NASA Field Center
College student Christopher O'Shea, of North Strabane, credits his father for the excitement he has for aviation.
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Summer at NASA Dryden 'INSPIRES' San Diego Student
William Scott, a 2008 graduate of San Diego's Clairemont High School, exchanged what could have been a relaxing summer vacation for the challenge of fitting into the workforce at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base.
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Orion Flight Test Parts Continue Arriving at NASA Dryden
The Forward Bay Cover for the first abort flight test Orion mockup crew module arrived at Dryden Flight Research Center on July 11.