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  • A software-development team prepares for a research flight with a new tool.

    New Tool is Testing Well

    Software being developed at Dryden could provide future aircraft designers with a better prediction tool that will accurately gauge how an aircraft would fly when a flight control surface is damaged and adaptive,
    › Read October 15, 2010 Xpress

  • A Dryden-based NASA Global Hawk made its final GRIP mission flight Sept. 24

    GRIP Mission Complete

    The DC-8 and Global Hawk aircraft flew the final flights of NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes, or GRIP, mission during the first week of September
    Read October 1, 2010 Xpress

  • The DC-8 flying laboratory crosses the eye of Hurricane Earl. Two passes through the storm were coordinated with a Global Hawk flying about 20,000 feet above the DC-8.

    GRIP Missions Rack Up

    The pair of NASA aircraft gathered data during coordinated flights through unnamed tropical depression AL-92, which was developing over open waters near Trinidad south of Haiti and the Dominican Republic and north of Venezuela.
    Read Sept 17, 2010 Xpress

  • Patrick Chan, second from left, explains components of the Dryden-developed fiber optic strain sensing technology to Bobby Braun, second from right. Also in the photo are Tom Horn, left, and Robbie Schingler, right.

    NASA Technology - Bobby Braun Informs Dryden's Workforce of Changes

    NASA Chief Technologist Bobby Braun told Dryden employees Aug. 12 that he is dedicated to his role as "the agency's technical champion" and restoring and coordinating NASA's technology efforts.
    Read Sept 3, 2010 Xpress

  • Dryden's Ed Haering has students yell to compare those noise levels with a sonic boom from an aircraft piercing the sound barrier later in the day.

    The Summer of Innovation

    During a day at Dryden on Aug. 27, the students learned about aeronautical concepts like sonic booms, those thunderous noises that happen when an aircraft penetrates the sound barrier.
    Read Sept 3, 2010 Xpress

  • Robert L. Hoot Gibson, Vance Brand, Mark Stuckey, Troy Asher and Davis Hackenberg are recognized at the JetHawks game Aug. 14.

    Honoring Hoot

    Former NASA astronaut Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson was born in Cooperstown, N.Y., home of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Though he has not been inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame or played professional baseball, he has been chosen for a hall of fame and honored at a baseball game.
    Read Aug 20, 2010 Xpress

  • Center Director David McBride thanked Dryden employees for their contributions and reminded them to work safely.

    Emphasis on Safety

    Safety allows Dryden to 'Do the Difficult and Impossible'.
    Read August 6, 2010 Xpress

  • Two NASA Global Hawks parked

    Dryden Aircraft Chosen for New Science Missions

    Hurricanes, air quality and Arctic ecosystems are among research areas to be investigated over the next five years with a series of new NASA airborne science missions.
    Read July 16, 2010 Xpress

  • Orion test module

    Dryden's Orion Team Welcomed Home

    For the past four years Dryden's Orion crew module abort flight test team has worked for a successful research flight that went flawlessly May 6.
    Read July 16, 2010 Xpress

  • The Orion PA-1 flight test crew module is unloaded from a Mississippi Air National Guard C-17 at Dryden after a ferry flight from Holloman Air Force Base, near White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

    Orion Returns

    The boilerplate crew module that was the focus of the May 6 Orion Launch Abort System Pad Abort-1 flight test at the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico has been returned to Dryden.
    Read July 2, 2010 Xpress

  • Ken Szalai,and Bill Burcham

    Selling the Cutting Edge

    If anyone knows what it takes to get a new research project going at Dryden, it's Al Bowers, Bill Burcham and Kenneth Szalai. A Code R all-hands meeting June 4 brought the three Dryden notables together to inspire engineers and give them an advantage in pursuing their ideas.
    Read July 2, 2010 Xpress

  • Global Hawk no. 871 recently completed its first flight as a NASA aircraft.

    Second NASA Global Hawk Makes First Flight

    A second NASA Global Hawk Earth sciences aircraft took to the skies May 27 on its first checkout flight since being acquired by NASA almost three years ago.

  • The SOFIA is photographed during ground tests.

    Jupiter Observed With SOFIA

    The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, completed the telescope characterization and "first light" mission between sunset May 25 and sunrise May 26.

  • Officials cutting ribbon for the Dryden Educator Resource Center and Exploration Gallery.

    Ceremony Highlights the ERC and Exploration Gallery

    The NASA Dryden Educator Resource Center and Exploration Gallery Visitor's Center were rededicated during a May 19 ceremony and ribbon cutting.

  • Jaiwon Shin speaking to dryden employees

    Shin Thanks Staff, Says Aeronautics Making Gains

    The future looks bright for NASA aeronautics and for Dryden with another $70 million in President Barack Obama's proposed budget.

  • mark geyer speaking to dryden employees

    Geyer Praises Employees, Explains What's Next

    The May 6 successful Pad Abort 1 flight test at the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico will play a role in astronaut safety regardless of what the next space vehicle will be when the space shuttles are retired.

  • The Pad Abort 1 flight test has a successful separation of the crew module.

    Orion Launch Abort System Validated

    A spectacular flight test of the Orion launch abort system went off without a hitch May 6 as cheers and applause erupted in the mission control room.

  • Students from the U.S. and Jakarta spoke to each other via DLN about interests and activities and found they have much in common.

    U.S. and Indonesian Students Exchange Ideas

    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, as the Dryden education office discovered in an April 19 distance-learning event linking teens in Palmdale and Jakarta.

  • Jennifer Martin

    Martin Saves a Life With Quick, Decisive Action

    A routine drive to the office turned out to be anything but when a Dryden employee encountered an emergency April 13.

  • An F/A-18 aircraft monitors the flight of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy as it successfully completes another test flight.

    Next Up - First Light

    Scientists and technicians are preparing the long-awaited Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy for a flight to validate and verify its science capabilities, during which the world's largest airborne telescope will make its first in-flight infrared observations.