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NASA Selects Boeing for Advanced Aircraft Vehicle Concepts
NASA has awarded a third contract for studies designed to identify advanced concepts for airliners that could enter service in 2025 and fly with less noise, cleaner exhaust and lower fuel consumption.
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NASA Selects Companies for Advanced Aircraft Vehicle Concepts
NASA has awarded two contracts for studies designed to identify advanced concepts for airliners that could enter service in 2025 and fly with less noise, cleaner exhaust and lower fuel consumption.
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NASA Airborne Science Campaign Begins Antarctic Sequel
Scientists returned this week to the Southern Hemisphere where NASA's Operation IceBridge mission is set to begin its second year of airborne surveys over Antarctica.
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NASA'S Airborne Infrared Observatory Sees The "First Light"
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a joint program by NASA and the German Aerospace Center, achieved a major milestone May 26, with its first in-flight night observations.
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SOFIA Observatory Completes First Astronomy Mission
NASA's SOFIA observatory recently completed the first series of early science flights to demonstrate the aircraft's potential to make discoveries about the infrared universe.
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NASA Research Flights May Cause Series Of Sonic Booms
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center will be conducting a series of research flights on Thursday morning, Oct. 14, and Saturday morning, Oct. 16, that could result in multiple sonic booms being heard in the local Edwards Air Force Base area.
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NASA Dryden Awards Electrical Upgrade Contract to Tucson Firm
Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a contract to Southwestern Dakotah Inc., of Tucson, Ariz., for upgrades the center's primary electrical distribution system.
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SOFIA Observatory Finishes Open-Door Flight Tests
SOFIA Observatory recently completed a second series of flight tests with its telescope door open.
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NASA Dryden Hosts Teachers for Airborne Research Experience
Enthusiastic Southern California teachers participated in NASA's Airborne Research Experiences for Educators and Students program.
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NASA Astronomers to Observe Hayabusa Homecoming
A group of astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations are flying to the other side of the world for a front row seat as the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft makes a fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere next Sunday night.
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NASA Dryden Awards Planning Support Contract To GRD, Inc.
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a contract to GRD Inc., of Doylestown, Pa., for continued project management planning support at the center, effective June 1, 2010.
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American, Indonesian Students Link Hands – Via Distance Learning
Indonesia's national motto is "Unity in diversity." Among ways of putting so broad a concept into perspective, few may be more effective than observing a meeting of teenage minds.
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Open House at Dryden's Educator Resource, Visitor Centers
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center will host an open house and rededication of its Educator Resource and Visitor Centers on Wednesday afternoon, May 19 at the AERO Institute in the Palmdale Civic Center.
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Ohio State Engineering Student Interning at NASA Center
At five years of age, Ohio State University engineering student Rory Kennedy visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
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NASA Dryden Sponsors Robotic Tool Kit Educators Workshop
Educators are invited to explore the use of robotics in the classroom during a free workshop on Saturday, May 22 at the AERO Institute in Palmdale.
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NASA Successfully Tests Orion Launch Abort System
NASA's Pad Abort 1 flight test, a launch of the abort system designed for the Orion crew vehicle, lifted off Thursday at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range.
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NASA's Unpiloted Global Hawk Completes First Science Flight
NASA has successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the Pacific Ocean. The flight April 7 was the first of five scheduled for this month's Global Hawk Pacific, or GloPac, mission.
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X-48B BWB Team Completes Phase 1 Test Flights
NASA and The Boeing Company have completed the first phase of flight tests on the subscale X-48B blended wing body aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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West Boron Students Learn About Careers at NASA Dryden
Students at the West Boron Elementary School in the East Kern County town of Boron learned about career possibilities in technical and scientific fields.
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Icebridge Mission Prepares for Study of Arctic Glaciers
NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicks off its second year of study when NASA's DC-8 airborne science laboratory arrives in Greenland March 22.
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NASA Dryden Solar System Educators Workshop March 27
Elementary and middle school educators are invited to a solar system workshop March 27 at the AERO Institute in Palmdale.
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NASA Dryden Awards Support Contract to Media Fusion
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a firm fixed-price contract to Media Fusion, Inc., of Huntsville, Ala., for administrative and technical services at the center, effective March 1.
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NASA Dryden Sponsors Science of Clouds Educator Workshop
Elementary educators are invited to explore the science of clouds at a science workshop Feb. 17 at the AERO Institute in Palmdale.
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NASA Airborne Radar To Study Quake Faults In Haiti, Dominican Republic
In response to the disaster in Haiti on Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola to a previously scheduled three-week airborne radar campaign to Central America.
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David D. McBride Named Director
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden has appointed David D. McBride as director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.