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Lancaster High Grad Brian Armstrong Interning At NASA Dryden
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ED08-0158-28 NASA Dryden summer intern Brian Armstrong operates the console in the center's television control room. (NASA Dryden photo / Tom Tschida). View Larger Image

ED08-0158-29 NASA Dryden summer intern Brian Armstrong operates the console in the center's television control room. (NASA Dryden photo / Tom Tschida). View Larger Image

Summer at NASA Dryden 'INSPIRES' Student Interns
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ED08-0135-02 Darcy Dewar, Will Scott, Teresa Thacker, Kaitlyn Cutler and Ricardo Fuentes (L-R) are among a group of student interns working at NASA Dryden under the INSPIRE program this summer. NASA photo / Tom Tschida View Larger Image

Lawrence Davis Appointed Flight Operations Chief At NASA Dryden
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EC04-0190-04 Dryden Director of Flight Operations Lawrence R. Davis. NASA Photo View Larger Image

X-48B Blended Wing Body
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	ED08-0092-02 The X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft banks smartly in this Block 2 flight phase image. NASA Photo Carla Thomas. View Larger Image
	ED08-0092-03 The X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft banks smartly in this Block 2 flight phase image. NASA Photo Carla Thomas. View Larger Image
	ED08-0092-13 Making a nice landing, the X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft team ends another successful Block 2 flight. NASA Photo Carla Thomas. View Larger Image

NASA Dryden, Air Force Flight Crews Undergo Survival Training
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›  Survival Training Videos

	ED08-0113-03 NASA Dryden life support technician Bobby McElwain aids pilot Dee Porter in donning his life preserver during water survival training. NASA Photo Tony Landis. View Larger Image
	ED08-0113-09 Photographer Carla Thomas practices escaping from under a parachute canopy during water survival training. NASA Photo Tony Landis. View Larger Image
	ED08-0113-18 NASA pilot Dick Ewers practices being rescued from the water with a hoist device used by rescue helicopters. NASA Photo Tony Landis. View Larger Image
	ED08-0113-23 NASA Flight Surgeon Gregg Bendrick practices getting into the one-man life raft during water survival training. NASA Photo Tony Landis. View Larger Image
	ED08-0113-35 Air Force and NASA Dryden personnel practice pulling a protective tarp over a 20-person life raft during a joint water survival training session at the Oasis Aquatic Center pool at Edwards Air Force Base. NASA Photo Tony Landis. View Larger Image
	ED08-0113-41 Pilot Dick Ewers practices releasing his parachute harness during a back drag procedure. NASA Photo Tony Landis. View Larger Image
	ED08-0113-58 Staff Sgt. Brandon Smith, an Edwards survival, evasion, resistance and escape instructor, demonstrates the proper way to hold a flare during ignition as part of a land and water survival training session. NASA Photo Tony Landis. View Larger Image
	ED08-0113-70 Staff Sgt. Brandon Smith (right), an Edwards survival, evasion, resistance and escape instructor, demonstrates the proper technique when using a signaling mirror during a joint land and water survival training session at Edwards Air Force Base. NASA Photo Tony Landis. View Larger Image
	ED08-0113-75 NASA Dryden photographer Carla Thomas and flight surgeon Dr. Gregg Bendrick practice activating flares during land survival training. NASA Photo Tony Landis. View Larger Image
	ED08-0113-82 NASA Dryden videographers Lori Losey and Brian Soukup and flight test engineer Syri Koelfgen practice activating flares during land survival training recently at Edwards Air Force Base. NASA Photo Tony Landis. View Larger Image

Survival Training Videos

	Flight personnel practice escape from parachute canopy during water survival training. View QuickTime Movies: 640x360 | 320x180
	Flight personnel practice escape from parachute harness while being dragged across water. View QuickTime Movies: 640x360 | 320x180
	Staff Sgt. Brandon Smith instructs trainees on flare lighting technique during survival training. View QuickTime Movies: 640x360 | 320x180
	Staff Sgt. Brandon Smith instructs trainees on signal mirror technique during survival training. View QuickTime Movies: 640x360 | 320x180
	Deploying and removing a protective tarp atop a life raft was part of the survival training. View QuickTime Movies: 640x360 | 320x180
	Survival training included being hauled from water in a simulated helicopter hoist device. View QuickTime Movies: 640x360 | 320x180
	Trainees practice getting aboard one-man life rafts and retrieving survival kits. View QuickTime Movies: 640x360 | 320x180

NASA Flight Research Center's LLRV Work led to Development of the Apollo Lunar Landers
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	Famed Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin gazes up at the cockpit of the partially restored second Lunar Landing Research Vehicle during a visit to NASA Dryden in August 2007. NASA / Gus Schalkham ›  View Larger Image
	ECN-541 The first Lunar Landing Research Vehicle hovers over the ramp in front of a World War II-era hangar at Edwards Air Force Base' south base in this 1964 photo.   NASA photo ›  View Larger Photo
	ECN-1606 The second Lunar Landing Research Vehicle developed to train Apollo astronauts in the 1960s is show in flight in 1967.   NASA photo ›  View Larger Photo