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Radiation Exposure on Commercial Flights
For the first time, NASA scientists are accurately calculating the level of damaging radiation people are exposed to on commercial airline flights.
NASA Looks for Safer Icing Forecast for Pilots
Of the many dangers that plague commercial airplanes, icing stands out as one of the most treacherous.
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Now Online: Aeronautics Goes E-Book
Books that tell the stories of historic aeronautics moments are being made available for your Kindle and other digital devices.
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Chopper Drop Tests New Technology
NASA researchers dropped a small helicopter from 35 feet to see if a deployable energy absorber could lessen the destructive force of a crash.
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A Final 'Goodbye' to the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel
Alumni gather to celebrate the 78-year history of the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel.
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Aviation Pioneer Richard T. Whitcomb
Richard T. Whitcomb has been called the most significant aerodynamic contributor of the second half of the 20th century.
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From Nothing, Something: One Layer at a Time
A manufacturing process using electron beams works sort of like a Star Trek replicator and could mean big cost and environmental benefits for aviation.
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NASA Flight Tests Unique Jumbo Jet; Plane's Airborne Telescope Will Be Used to Unlock Secrets of the Cosmos
12.18.09 - A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane’s telescope were fully opened in flight.
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NASA Accepting Applications for Aeronautics Scholarship Awards
08.27.09 - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate will begin accepting scholarship applications on Sept. 1, 2009, for the 2010 academic year.
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NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield
08.17.09 - A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
 "Test instrumentation is set up behind the inboard engines of NASA’s DC-8.")
