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News Releases 2013
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NASA Administrator Bolden to Tour Dream Chaser
Media personnel are invited to accompany NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on a tour of SNC's Dream Chaser vehicle Wednesday, May 22, at NASA Dryden.
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X-48 Wraps Up Six-Year Flight Research Program
Remotely piloted subscale X-48B / X-48C hybrid/blended-wing-body aircraft demonstrated technology concepts for cleaner, quieter commercial air travel.
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NASA SAR Captures Radar Imagery Over the Americas
JPL's UAVSAR instrument carried on Dryden's C-20A showcases its broad scientific prowess for studying our home planet during month-long expedition.
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Xombie Rocket Makes Highest, Longest Flight To Date
80-second flight ascends more than 1,600 feet above ground, moves almost 1,000 feet horizontally before landing on target at Mojave Air & Space Port.
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NASA Begins Alternate-Fuel Flight Research Tests
Heavily instrumented Falcon jet measures soot, gases streaming from NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory using alternative 50/50 JP8-biofuel mix.
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Educator Teams Fly on NASA’s SOFIA Airborne Observatory
The first four Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) educators for 2013 have completed their initial flight on NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory.
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Dryden Employees Honored for Space Flight Awareness
NASA Dryden staffers Dennis Avila, Michael Collie cited for their contributions to excellence in quality and safety in support of human spaceflight.
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Major NASA Pollution Study to Fly over California
NASA aircraft to fly over central California measuring air pollution helping scientists understand how to measure and forecast air quality from space.
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NASA Uses Aircraft to Chase Climate Change Clues
NASA Global Hawk unmanned research aircraft to probe upper atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean for answers to how a warming climate is changing Earth.
News Releases 2012
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Dryden 2012: Advancing Aerospace, Science Research
Dryden Flight Research Center helped advance NASA's overall mission of Earth and space science and aerospace technology research, development in 2012.
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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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