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Facilities at NASA Langley

NASA’s first field center, Langley has world-class capabilities, expertise, and state-of-the-art facilities.

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Facilities

Explore NASA's Langley Research Center's state-of-the-art facilities.

Measurement Systems Laboratory

The MSL is a 175,000-square-foot, five-story laboratory containing 40 state-of-the-art research labs and workspace for 245 people for developing, testing, and implementing new sensor and instrument technologies.

An artists rendering of the Flight Dynamics Research Facility. The facility houses a unique test section that will combine the capability of two older wind tunnels.

Flight Dynamics Research Facility

The Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF) will be a highly versatile and cost-effective vertical wind tunnel for conducting flight-dynamics and other research on all manner of atmospheric flight vehicles.

A close-up view of the wooden blades of the 14x22 wind tunnel.

14-by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel

Explore NASA Langley’s busiest wind tunnel where low-speed tests lead to safer takeoffs and landings.

A demonstration at NASA Langley Research Center's Structures and Materials Laboratory of a future otherworldly home for astronauts.

Structures and Materials Testing

See designs of space structures and learn about the materials used to make them.

The Orion capsule sits outside of a flight hangar at NASA Langley at sunset.

Flight Research Hangar

Langley’s historic hangar houses aircraft that support an array of airborne research campaigns.

A flight simulator in use, taken from the pilot's view.

Flight Simulation

Langley’s Cockpit Motion Facility is designed around a state-of-the-art, high-performance, 76-inch six-degree-of-freedom synergistic motion system.

Anechoic room configured for transmission loss testing

Acoustics Research Lab

Researchers use this facility to measure human response to aircraft noise.

A side-angle view of Building 1250 at NASA Langley during the day.

Atmospheric Sciences

See inside a clean room where space-bound technology is tested and prepared.

A drone shot of the vacuum spheres at NASA Langley.

Hypersonic Facilities Complex

These vacuum spheres, which researchers use to create air flow for testing aerodynamics, have become a symbol of NASA Langley. 

A composites machine inside a manufacturing facility at NASA Langley.

Advanced Manufacturing

In this lab, innovative manufacturing techniques are tested, refined and put to work creating items needed for NASA missions.

A drone shot of the Landing and Impact Research Facility at NASA Langley during the day.

Landing and Impact Research Facility (LandIR)

Researchers conduct landing and crash tests where Apollo astronauts once trained.

A model aircraft inside the national transonic facility at NASA Langley.

National Transonic Facility (NTF)

The National Transonic Facility, or NTF, is the world’s largest pressurized cryogenic wind tunnel.

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