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Space Act Agreement Expands Ikhana CC2 Capabilities
NASA / GA-ASI agreement covers development and flight testing of new command and control system to enable operations in remote geographical regions.
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NASA Dryden F/A-18 To Chase 'Faint' Sonic Booms
NASA embarks on its latest effort to soften sonic booms as a NASA F/A-18 takes to the air in the Farfield Investigation of No Boom Threshold project.
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NASA's DC-8 Resumes Operation Icebridge Flights
Scientists and flight crew with NASA's Operation IceBridge mission began another Antarctic campaign this month to study Earth's changing polar ice.
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Dryden's Jim Smolka Honored by Test Pilot Society
Jim Smolka, Director of Flight Operations at NASA Dryden, is among 10 persons selected to become Fellows of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
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NASA's Global Hawk Mission Begins with Flight to Hurricane Leslie
NASA began its latest hurricane science mission, dubbed HS3, when an unmanned NASA Global Hawk flew over Tropical Storm Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour to Make Historic Final Ferry Flight
Space shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop NASA's modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), will make the final ferry flight of the Space Shuttle Program era when it departs Monday, Sept. 17, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida headed to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
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NASA's SOFIA to Embark on New Cycle of Science
The SOFIA observatory set to begin its first full cycle of 46 astronomical science flights over 13 months from November 2012 through December 2013.
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NASA Hosts Social Media Event to Welcome Endeavour to California
To welcome space shuttle Endeavour to Southern California, NASA is inviting 40 of its social media followers to a "NASA Social" Sept. 19 - 20 at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. Portions of the social will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's website.
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NASA Selects Two Technologies For Suborbital Tests
Flight Opportunities Program selects new technologies for suborbital flights to test the payloads' functionality before deployment on future missions.
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NASA Dryden Awards Protective Services Contract
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has selected Linxx Global Solutions, Inc., of Virginia Beach, Va., to provide protective services at the NASA field center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and its satellite facility in Palmdale, Calif.
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Transformed X-48C Takes to the Air on First Flight
The sub-scale NASA-Boeing X-48C Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator begins flight tests of modified low-noise configuration.
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NASA Dryden Hosts Mars Science Laboratory Exhibit
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will be in focus at the AERO Institute in the Palmdale Civic Center during Thursday Night on the Square Aug. 2.
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Rachel Thomson Awarded Dryden Employee Scholarship
NASA Dryden's Employee Exchange Council has presented its 2012 John K. Russell Memorial Scholarship Award to 2012 Desert High grad Rachel Thomson.
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Students Study Earth From NASA's P-3B Flying Lab
More than 30 college students are immersed in NASA's Earth science research during the Student Airborne Research Program field experience at NASA Dryden.
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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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Dryden Hosts Social Media Followers at NASA Social
NASA social media followers to get a behind-the-scenes look at aeronautics, science and other research at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center May 4.
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SOFIA Captures Images Of Planetary Nebula M2-9
Researchers using NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy capture infrared images of the last exhalations of a dying sun-like star.
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Masten, Draper Mark First Flight of Xombie Rocket
Draper Lab's GENIE flight control system guides Masten Space Systems' Xombie demonstrator in first vertical takeoff, vertical landing free flight.
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Educators Selected to Fly on NASA's SOFIA Airborne Observatory
26 educators have been selected to partner with professional astronomers on research flights aboard NASA's SOFIA flying observatory in 2012-13.
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NASA Airborne Study To Measure Canadian Snowfall
GCPEx precipitation experiment on DC-8 flying lab to measure light rain and snow in Ontario over six-week period in advance of GPM satellite launch.