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Langley Exploration Features

For Resident Engineers, MLAS Work Is Up Close and Personal

The "resident engineers" of the Max Launch Abort System program, which will launch its product from Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, have been moved by their experience.
NASA Langley Keeping An Eye on Shuttle During Hubble Mission

Researchers at NASA Langley have an added stake in this month's space shuttle mission.
For Langley Inventors, It's Mind Over Golf

The tall Australian, wearing three sensors on her forehead, takes a short practice swing with her putter. A soft voice on a recorder advises "relax ... breathe ... good." Katherine Hull putts the ball into the hole.
For the Love of Space

Richard Davis retired from NASA Langley as a senior scientist in 2007, but that didn't mean his work was anywhere near complete.
Apollo 11: Youth Is Served an Overflowing Measure of Pride

James Stevenson was too young to remember, but with the passage of time he has learned from his family that he was among 450 million people in front of television sets to watch Apollo 11 touch down on the moon.
Methane on Mars Offers Questions and Here's How to Get Answers

Michael Mumma asked the question: "Methane on Mars – Geology, Biology, Neither or Both?" on Tuesday at the Reid Center. Then he answered that there is no answer … yet.

Contrails Over Mars? →

Langley researchers have set their sights on Mars. They're designing an airplane that can fly in the thin Martian atmosphere.