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NASA Gears Up for Airborne Tropopause Study
NASA recently completed flight tests to prepare for a multi-year airborne campaign to study humidity and chemistry of the tropical tropopause.
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NASA Dryden to Build New Facilities Support Center
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded an $11.2 million contract for construction of a 38,000-square-foot Facilities Support Center.
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NASA Continues Critical Survey Of Antarctic Ice
Scientists on NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory have begun the third year of Operation IceBridge airborne research missions over Antarctica's ice sheets.
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NASA Dryden Awards UAS In NAS Research Contracts
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently awarded contracts to research firms to aid the center in meeting goals of the UAS in the NAS project.
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Student Completes Hands-on NASA Dryden Internship
Engineering major Travis Whitlow finished a NASA University Research Centers internship that offered him hands-on and mentored engineering experience.
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Internship Gives Grad Student Hands-on Experience
Kentucky State University computer science grad student Luis Urbina obtained hands-on engineering experience via an EPSCoR internship at NASA Dryden.
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Curry, Thomson Named to Dryden Management Posts
Veteran aerospace engineers Robert Curry and Michael Thomson have been named to oversee airborne science, aeronautical research at NASA Dryden.
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NASA Airborne Sensor Helps Fire Crews Battle Flames
A NASA thermal-infrared scanner mounted in a NASA aircraft stands ready to support the Forest Service and CAL FIRE with real-time wildfire imagery.
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NASA Selects 7 Firms To Fly Suborbital Payloads
NASA has selected seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable rockets near the boundary of space.
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Dryden Employee Scholarship Goes to Emily Wright
NASA Dryden's Employee Exchange Council has presented its 2011 Thomas W. Finch Memorial Scholarship Award to Desert High grad Emily G. Wright.
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Dryden's Kirk Receives Space Flight Awareness Award
NASA Dryden nurse practitioner Katie Kirk has been honored with a NASA Space Flight Awareness award for her support of NASA's space shuttle program.
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Students Study The Earth From NASA's Flying Lab
Almost 30 college students are participating in the 2011 Student Airborne Research Program Earth science flights on NASA's DC-8 June 27-30.
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SOFIA's Telescope Views Pluto Occultation
NASA’s SOFIA observatory viewed the dwarf planet Pluto as it passed in front of a distant star when Pluto's shadow fell on Earth June 23.
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Dryden Staff Receive Space Flight Awareness Awards
Seven NASA Dryden Flight Research Center employees were recently honored with Space Flight Awareness awards for their support of human space flight.
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NASA Selects Classroom Teachers for SOFIA Science Flights
NASA has selected the first six teachers who will work with scientists aboard the SOFIA flying observatory during research flights in May and June.
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NASA Hosts SOFIA Science Video Web Chat May 12
SOFIA Project Scientist Pamela Marcum will answer questions from the public about viewing the infrared universe during an on-line video chat May 12.
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SOFIA Completes First Flight of German Science Instrument
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, completed its first science flight using the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (GREAT) scientific instrument.
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NASA Airborne Radar Set To Image Kilauea Volcano
The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island is being studied by NASA to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth’s surface.
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NASA Web Chat on Laminar Airflow Research
NASA Dryden aerospace engineer Ethan Baumann will discuss NASA's laminar airflow research at a web chat this Wednesday, March 30. › NASA web chat
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Bohn-Meyer Math-Science Odyssey at AV College Feb. 4
More than 200 seventh-graders will experience hands-on learning activities during the Bohn-Meyer Math-Science Odyssey Feb. 4 at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, Calif.