Langley Exploration Features

  • HUNCH students build a spatial disorientation chair.

    Students Had a HUNCH About Spinning Chair

    Sixteen Hampton Roads area high school students work with NASA and New Horizons to build a spatial disorientation simulator for pilots and astronauts.

  • Robert Lightfoot visits NASA's Langley Research Center.

    Lightfoot Gets a New View of NASA Research

    NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot began his Langley visit as a leader; he ended it as a mentee.

  • NASA astronaut Jack Fischer flies a Dream Chaser simulation

    Astronaut Pilots a "Dream" at NASA Langley

    NASA astronaut Jack Fischer visited Langley's Cockpit Motion Facility in May to fly simulated Sierra Nevada Corporation Dream Chaser landings.

  • Davis Represents Curiosity EDL Team at NASM Award Ceremony

    The Mars Science Laboratory entry, descent and landing received the 2013 Trophy for Current Achievement from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum April 24.

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  • Orion LAS Ogive Integration Tool

    Orion LAS Team Visits New Orleans for Ogive Checkup

    Members of the Orion Launch Abort System (LAS) team met at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans to review progress of the assimilation of the LAS Ogive Assembly, which will be flown o...

  • Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, Expedition 34 Flight Engineer, installing Ultra-Sonic Background Noise Test sensors behind a rack in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. These sensors detect high frequency noise levels generated by station hardware and equipment. (NASA)

    Technology to "Hear" Potential Leaks

    Space station's Ultrasonic Background Noise Test (UBNT) to detect air leaks by "listening" for high frequency sounds

Langley Exploration Multimedia

Exploration Research

  • The ARES Mars airplane explorer, artist concept

    Contrails Over Mars?  →

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