NASA operates two Lockheed ER-2 Earth Resources aircraft as flying laboratories in the Airborne Science Program under the Agency’s Science Mission Directorate. The aircraft are based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, and collect information about the Earth’s resources, celestial observations, atmospheric chemistry and dynamics, and oceanic processes. The aircraft … Continue reading ER-2 High-Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft