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| NASA and Gulfstream Flying in High Def
NASA is partnering with Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. on a project that could aid visibility for pilots of future supersonic business jets. + Read More  | ||
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| Extending the Frontiers of Flight: the X-15
It's been called the most successful of the X-plane flight research programs, but according to noted aerospace author Dennis Jenkins, the decade-long X-15 rocket plane hypersonic research program was not without its pitfalls. + Read More | ||
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| Scientists Selected for New Airborne Eye on the Universe
Three astronomers to participate in first scientific observations to be conducted by the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). + Read More | ||
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| NASA Reinstalls Main Mirror in SOFIA Airborne Observatory
Engineers and technicians from NASA, the German Space Agency and the Deutsches SOFIA Institut recently reinstalled the German-built primary mirror assembly into NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, airborne observatory. + Read More View Photos | ||
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| Orion Gets a Lift
Recently, the Orion pad abort crew module was lifted by crane and placed on instrumented jacks at NASA Dryden to determine the vehicle's weight, balance and vertical center of gravity. + View | ||
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| NASA Partners With Forest Service On Air Tanker Safety Study
NASA is partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service on a project to examine the mission suitability of Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 fire retardant delivery aircraft. + Read More View Larger Photos | ||
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| Aeronautics, Space Science on Exhibit at Balloon Fest
So what do some of the 800,000 fans of the Albuquerque, N.M., Balloon Fiesta events do when the action is over, out of sight, or called off due to weather? They head to exhibits such as NASA's, available through Oct. 12. + Read More | ||
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| Management Appointments Announced at NASA Dryden
Kevin L. Petersen, Director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, recently announced appointments to several management positions at the NASA field center. + Read More Dryden News Photos | ||
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| Enthusiastic Fifth-graders Learn About NASA Aeronautics, Science
How cool is NASA when students in two fifth grade classes forgo recess to ask more questions? For students in two Cielo Azul Elementary School classes in Rio Rancho, N.M., their studies Oct. 7 included some lessons on NASA aeronautics, science and astronomy. + Read More | ||
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| Re-entry Breakup of Jules Verne ATV-1
The breakup and fragmentation of the European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle was captured in dramatic fashion by scientists aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory and a Gulfstream V aircraft as it re-entered the atmosphere early Monday morning over the South Pacific. + Read More NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory ATV Re-entry Imagery ATV Re-entry Video | ||
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| NASA Dryden Supports Salute to Youth Career Day
Antelope Valley-area high school students learned of career opportunities at NASA and scores of other potential employers. + Read More | ||
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| NASA's Ikhana UAS resumes Western States Fire Mission flights
NASA's Ikhana UAS resumes Western States Fire Mission flights + Read More | ||
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| Newly Coated Mirror Assembly Returns
The newly coated telescope mirror assembly for SOFIA is unloaded from a C-17 aircraft at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility prior to re-installation. + Read More Read News Release | ||
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| The Last Rocketeer: Pink Boots and Yellow Daisies
As the morning of Sept. 23, 1975 dawned over the Southern California high desert, a team of engineers, technicians and flight crew busily prepared for what would be the last chapter in a flight research program that had spanned more than a dozen years. + Read More | ||
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| Tehachapi High Grad Awarded NASA Dryden Scholarship
Jill Pestana, a graduate of the Class of 2008 at Tehachapi High School, has been selected by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Employee Exchange Council to receive the 2008 Harold W. Walker Memorial Scholarship award. + Read More | ||
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| Lunar Landing Hazard Velocity LIDAR Device Tested at NASA Dryden
An experimental light detection and ranging (lidar) device that is able to measure descent velocity for future manned and robotic lunar missions was flight-tested Aug. 20-22 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center...Read more on ALHAT + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Team Supports Technology Challenge
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center employees Tony Ginn, Scott Wiley and Jonathan Barraclough attended NASA's General Aviation Technology Challenge Aug. 4-10 at the Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, Calif. + Read More | ||
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| The M2-F1: An Unlikely Forerunner to the Space Shuttle
The planned retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2010 will bring to a close an era that opened in the high desert of Southern California nearly a half century ago. + Read More | ||
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| Lancaster High Grad Brian Armstrong Interning at NASA Dryden
NASA intern Brian Armstrong has always been interested in aviation, thanks to the influence of his aerospace engineer father. + Read More | ||
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| Retired NASA Test Pilot Bill Dana Honored
Retired NASA Dryden Flight Research Center test pilot Bill Dana was honored Saturday evening, Aug. 9, by the Lancaster Jethawks Class A baseball team during its annual Aerospace Appreciation Night. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Awards Global Hawk Support Contract to Northrop Grumman
Dryden has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman for engineering and technical services in support of the center's planned operation of two Global Hawk aircraft. + Read More | ||
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| Local College Student is Summer Intern at NASA Field Center
Univ. of Utah student Patricia Oliphant , of Highland, Ca., has always had a fascination with the atmosphere and meteorology. + Read More | ||
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| Local College Student is Summer Intern at NASA Field Center
College student Christopher O'Shea, of North Strabane, credits his father for the excitement he has for aviation. + Read More | ||
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| Summer at NASA Dryden 'INSPIRES' San Diego Student
William Scott, a 2008 graduate of San Diego's Clairemont High School, exchanged what could have been a relaxing summer vacation for the challenge of fitting into the workforce at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base. + Read More | ||
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| Orion Flight Test Parts Continue Arriving at NASA Dryden
The Forward Bay Cover for the first abort flight test Orion mockup crew module arrived at Dryden Flight Research Center on July 11. + Read More | ||
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| Bakersfield Student Emily Sayles Interning at NASA Dryden
Bakersfield resident Emily Sayles had her fire lit about space travel when she was in the fifth grade. That summer, Sayles attended U.S. Space Camp, then based at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Engineer Long Time EAAer
Tony Ginn comes from a flying family. He carries on that tradition at work and at home. + Read More | ||
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| Summer at NASA Dryden 'INSPIRES' Student Interns
A number of Antelope Valley students exchanged what could have been a relaxing summer vacation for the challenge of fitting into the workforce at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base. + Read More | ||
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| Redlands High School Student Julianna Plumb Interning at NASA Dryden
Julianna Plumb of Redlands made a huge commitment for the summer. She chose to spend eight weeks away from family and friends in exchange for immersion into the aerospace engineering field as an intern at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Evaluates Fiber Optic Technology for Future Aircraft Efficiency
NASA is evaluating an advanced, fiber optic-based sensing technology that could aid development of active control of an aircraft's wing shape. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Responds to California Wildfire Emergency Imaging Request
A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week, gathering information that will be used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning within the state. + Read More | ||
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| Main Mirror for SOFIA Infrared Observatory Receives Finish Coating
The main mirror for NASA’s new airborne eye on the universe is now ready for installation after being transformed from a carefully shaped and polished piece of glass into a highly reflective optical component at NASA's Ames Research Center. + Read More | ||
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| Aurora Resident Jordan Jensen Interning at NASA Field Center
As a young child, Jordan Jensen's first flight experience in a Cessna 172 led to a lifetime interest in everything associated with aircraft. He could not have foreseen that this early fascination would lead to a position with NASA. + Read More | ||
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| SOFIA Primary Mirror Shipped to NASA Ames for Coating
The primary mirror assembly of NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, has been shipped to NASA's Ames Research Center near San Jose, Calif., for its final finish coating. + Read More | ||
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| Steven Schmidt Named to Lead Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
Steven G. Schmidt, deputy director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base since 2004, has been appointed director of the center's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif. + Read More | ||
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| NASA, Air Resources Board To Examine California Air Quality
NASA and scientists from the California Air Resources Board are conducting a series of research flights this month that are examining the atmosphere over the state to better understand the chemical dynamics of smog and greenhouse gases. + Read More | ||
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| Lawrence Davis Appointed Flight Operations Chief At NASA Dryden
Veteran test pilot, engineer, instructor and system safety manager Lawrence R. Davis has been appointed as Director of Flight Operations at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. + Read More | ||
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| Middle School Student Robotics Workshop Slated in Palmdale
Local middle school students are invited to participate in a weeklong robotics workshop during the second week in July in Palmdale. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden, Air Force Flight Crews Undergo Survival Training
When flight crews have to bail out or eject from a crippled aircraft, they need to know how to survive once they hit the ground or water. + Read More | ||
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| LLRV Work led to Apollo Lunar Landers
NASA Flight Research Center's LLRV work led to development of the Apollo Lunar Landers. + Read More | ||
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| Dryden Management Appointments
Three employees of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center have recently been assigned to top management positions. + Read More | ||
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| Orion Arrives at Dryden
Crew module mockup arrives at Dryden for test preparations. + Read More | ||
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| Kathleen Howell-Mother, Private Pilot and NASA Engineer
NASA flight operations engineer Kathleen Howell was a stay-at-home mom to three children prior to joining NASA. + Read More | ||
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| SOFIA Telescope Operational Testing Continues
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization testing in early March. + Read More | ||
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| Orion Flight Test Crew Module Unveiled at NASA Langley
Mockup will inaugurate the flight-testing phase of the Constellation Program. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden's Smolka, Molzahn Receive Aviation Week Laureate Award
Research pilot James W. Smolka and flight test operations engineer Leslie M. Molzahn of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center were among aerospace professionals honored by Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine at its recent Laureate Awards presentation. + Read More | ||
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| Launching Art Into Space
Not many artists are privileged to see their work fly in space. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden's Mark Dickerson – Giving Back What He Has Been Given
When Dryden engineer Mark C. Dickerson was in junior high school, a teacher took him flying and opened his mind to a new world of possibilities. + Read More | ||
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| Dryden-sponsored Prep Robotics Teams Unveil 2008 Robots
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center is sponsoring high school teams in the 2008 "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology" robotics competition. + Read More | ||
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| X-48B Demonstrator Completes Eighth Flight in Test Series
Boeing's X-48B Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator successfully completed its eighth flight of its flight test program on Jan. 31, 2008 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. + Read More | ||
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| SOFIA Visits Ames; Begins Mission Systems Installation
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy made a brief visit to NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field near San Jose on Jan. 14. + Read More | ||
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| Flick, Harris Advanced to Senior Management Roles at NASA Dryden
Two employees at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center have been named to senior management positions at the center. Bradley C. Flick has been appointed the center's Chief Engineer, a senior level position, after serving in an acting capacity since late 2005. James W. Harris has been named as director of Dryden's Test Systems Directorate. + Read More | ||
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| Dryden Pilot's Artwork, Photography Featured in Aviation Week
Initial research activities beginning in 2009 will support NASA's Airborne Science Program.NASA research pilot and aerospace artist / photographer Mark Pestana has been recognized by Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine for his award-winning painting, "The Quest for Mach 10," that was published in the magazine's annual photography / art issue in late December. + Read More | ||
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| Gordo's Final Flight
After more than 38 years with NASA, C. Gordon Fullerton had his final flight on Dec. 21, 2007. + Read More | ||
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| SOFIA Telescope Operation Checkout Continues
Initial flight testing of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, continued during December at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Receives Two Early Global Hawk Aircraft
Initial research activities beginning in 2009 will support NASA's Airborne Science Program. + Read More > Play audio > View Script | ||
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| Missions and Memories – 2007 at NASA Dryden
In 2007, NASA Dryden supported a number of research projects that contributed to aerospace technology, the agency's space exploration goals and the knowledge and protection of our environment. + Read More > Play Audio > View Script | ||
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| NASA honored at Jules Verne Film Festival
Space Station crew downlinks message. + Read More | ||
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| Ed Lewis - His Contrail Remains at NASA
Remembered at Dryden as "a contrail that won’t dissipate" . + Read More | ||
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| NASA Evaluates Compact Synthetic Aperture Radar
Sensor measures small geophysical changes in the Earth's surface. + Read More | ||
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| SOFIA Completes Initial Flight Test Segment
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has completed the initial segment of the first phase of SOFIA flight testing. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Selects Dryden Project for IPP Seed Fund Award
NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program recently awarded a "Seed Fund" grant to Tao Systems, of Hampton, Va., for development of a compact aerodynamic sensing system that will help validate aircraft flight performance. + Read More | ||
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| Groundbreaking Signals Start of NASA's Constellation Flight Tests
With less than a year until flight tests of NASA's Constellation Program, work is under way on a launch pad that will host the first of those tests. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Awards Engineering, Technical Services Contract
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a multi-year competitive contract to Tybrin Corporation of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., for engineering and technical services at the NASA field center. + Read More | ||
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| NASA's DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory Returns to Dryden
Aircraft to be based at Dryden's new Aircraft Operations Facility + Read More | ||
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| NASA Pilot Edwin Lewis Dies in Crash
Lewis was a research pilot at Dryden Flight Research Center. + Read More | ||
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| Former Astronaut Visits Southern California Explorer School
John Herrington visits with students at Vintage Magnet School + Read More | ||
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| 2007 SpotBeam Civil Space Award
Winner is SOFIA + Read More | ||
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| Wildfire Imaging Flights By NASA's Ikhana UAV
NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft system flew over several of the major Southern California wildfires again Friday, capturing thermal-infrared imagery to aid firefighters battling those blazes. + Read More + News Release 07-58 + Read More on the Ikhana Mission + Southern California Wildfire Images + Ikhana Photo Gallery | ||
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| Greeting a Living Legend: NASA's Cosentino Meets Childhood Hero Buzz Aldrin
Nine-year-old Gary Cosentino watched the television with awe on July 20, 1969, as two men exited an odd-looking craft called the Eagle lunar module, climbed down a ladder and set foot on the moon. + Read More | ||
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| SOFIA Airborne Observatory Begins Flight Test Phase
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy has begun a series of flight tests to confirm the structural integrity and performance of the 747SP aircraft. + Read More + View Photos + View Movies + Sensational SOFIA Special Edition X-Press | ||
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| NASA's Hispanic Heritage
Despite personal tragedies, NASA engineer pursued her dreams. + Read More | ||
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| Neil Armstrong Shows How to Land on the Moon
The problem: land an aerospace vehicle before you take off in it, and do it the first time ever on an unimproved field no human has ever visited. That's what Neil Armstrong faced when he guided Eagle to the moon's surface in July 1969. + Read More | ||
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| Former NASA Dryden Research Pilot Stanley P. Butchart Dies
Retired NASA Dryden Flight Research Center research pilot Stanley P. Butchart died Monday in Lancaster at the age of 85. + Read More | ||
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| Lauren Abraham Awarded NASA Dryden Exchange Council Scholarship
Lauren K. Abraham, a June graduate of Tehachapi High School, has been awarded the NASA Dryden Exchange Council's 2007 John K. Russell Memorial Scholarship. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Awards Orion Launch Abort Test Facilities Contract
NASA's White Sands Test Facility has selected Denco, Inc. of Las Cruces, N.M., to build launch site facilities for flight testing of the Orion Launch Abort System. + Read More | ||
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| WSFM Status Report
NASA's Ikhana UAV Conducts Fourth Western States Fire Mission Flight + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Represented at Salute to Youth Career Fair
NASA Dryden engineer Leslie Molzahn autographs photos for Antelope Valley-area high school students during the annual Salute to Youth in Palmdale, Calif. + Read More | ||
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| Chuck Yeager
First person to fly an aircraft faster than the speed of sound brought his recollections to an appreciative NASA audience. + Read More | ||
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| Dryden News Photos
Promotional high resolution photos associated with news releases and features that are temporarily available for downloading. + View | ||
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| Skyray 48 Takes Flight
Remotely piloted plane to demonstrate blended wing shape. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden to Establish Aircraft Operations at Palmdale Site
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has received approval to establish an Aircraft Operations Facility at the former Rockwell International / North American Aircraft production facility in Palmdale. + Read More | ||
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| NASA 'Wired' at NextFest
NASA proved to be 'wired' at this year's NextFest, WIRED Magazine's new-technology festival. + Read More | ||
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| Wildfire Imaging Missions Continue on NASA's Ikhana UAV
The third in a series of wildfire imaging demonstration flights by the Ikhana unmanned aircraft. + Read More | ||
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| Bill Dana - Rocket Pilot
X-15 test pilot William H. "Bill" Dana kept the rocket plane on track as it crested at an altitude of 59 miles. + Read More | ||
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| NASA's California Centers Participating in NextFest This Weekend
NASA's three field centers in California will be showcasing some of their current and future technologies at WIRED magazine's NextFest this weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Awards Engineering, Technical Agreements
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently awarded Blanket Purchase Agreements to four firms for engineering and technical support services at the NASA field center. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Offers STS-118 Educational Seminar In Palmdale
Local educators are invited to participate in space shuttle mission STS-118 through a summer seminar sponsored by the education office of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. The second of two sessions is scheduled for Saturday, August 25, at the NASA Dryden Education Center in Palmdale. + Read More | ||
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| Astronaut Suni Williams a hit at X-Games
NASA astronaut Suni Williams speaks during an appearance at the NASA exhibit at the X-Games in suburban Los Angeles. + Read More | ||
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| Ejection Seats Explored at NASA’s Palmdale Gallery
When pilots flying high performance jets need to get out of a crippled aircraft in a hurry, they count on rocket-powered ejection seats. + Read More | ||
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| X-48B Blended Wing Body Research Aircraft Makes First Flight
Collaborative efforts culminated on the first flight of the X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft on July 20, 2007. + Read More | ||
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| Larry Huebner Could Help you go to the Moon
It's reasonable to believe the sea of aerospace-savvy faces at AirVenture includes visitors who will one day set foot on the moon. And NASA's Larry Huebner is here to help. + Read More | ||
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| From Jamestown to Mars, it Takes Explorers with Imagination
Four centuries ago, pioneers from England were humbled by the elements as they struggled to maintain a community at Jamestown on Chesapeake Bay. + Read More | ||
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| NASA EAA Museum Exhibit Celebrates the Art of Flying with Technology
Sawtooth helicopter blades that muffle the "whop! whop!" and elegant wind tunnel models that are a fusion of sculpture and engineering set the tone for an exhibit of NASA aerodynamic shapes in the EAA Museum during AirVenture 2007. + Read More | ||
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| Sonic Boom Tests
Tests will examine the structural response of modern housing construction to sonic booms. + Read More | ||
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| Airborne Astronomy in View at NASA's Palmdale Gallery
The world's newest flying telescope will be in focus on Saturday, June 30, at NASA's Aerospace Exploration Gallery in the Palmdale Civic Center. + Read More | ||
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| The SOFIA Airborne Laboratory
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA made its first checkout flight recently. + Read More + View June 07 issue of X-Press X-tra | ||
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| SOFIA Airborne Observatory Arrives at NASA Dryden
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, has arrived at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. + Read More | ||
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| Grace Lutheran School Students Tour NASA Dryden
Students in Lancaster recently had the opportunity to see first-hand the cutting-edge flight research projects and facilities at NASA Dryden. + Read More | ||
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| Upside-Down Astronauts
A little-known fact of the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions is that, upon splashdown, the space capsules rolled upside down in the ocean during about half of the landings. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden's Jeanette Le: From war-torn Vietnam to a career at NASA
From a childhood in war-torn Vietnam to a career at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California, Jeanette Le has had a challenging yet rewarding life, to say the least. + Read More + News Release 07-30 | ||
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| NASA Rededicates Flying Observatory on Lindbergh Anniversary
NASA dedicated a unique astronomy aircraft Monday to pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh on the 80th anniversary of his historic transatlantic flight. + Read More | ||
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| Space Shuttle Contingency Training Exercise
A training exercise was conducted for rescue of a space shuttle crew in the unlikely event of a landing mishap at Edwards AFB. + Read More | ||
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| SOFIA Astronomy Jet Makes First Flight
International astronomers are a major step closer to unlocking secrets of the cosmos. + Read More | ||
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| Facilities Maintenance Pact Awarded
Dryden has awarded a sole-source contract to Pride Industries of Roseville, Calif., for a wide range of facilities support and maintenance operations. + Read More | ||
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| NASA, FAA Develop Flight Test Safety Database
Web-based, one-stop reference guide for aviation test-flying community. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Buys Abort Test Boosters for Orion Flight Tests
Agency enters into agreement with the U.S. Air Force to support Orion. + Read More | ||
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| 'Flying without Wings' in Focus at NASA'S Palmdale Gallery
Wen Painter, former lifting body project engineer, will discuss the famous wingless lifting bodies at the NASA Aerospace Exploration Gallery. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Awards Engineering & Tech Support Pact to Boeing
Specialized research aircraft contract could be worth up to $28 million. + Read More | ||
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| 'Rocket Boy' to NASA Engineer
Homer Hickam shares his memoir. + Read More | ||
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| Ikhana UAV Gives NASA New Science and Technology Capabilities
The inventory of research aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has grown by one with the acquisition of a Predator B unmanned aircraft system. + Read More | ||
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| Two Test Pilots Join NASA Dryden's Flight Operations Staff
Two new research test pilots, Kelly Latimer and Nils Larson, have joined the Flight Crew Branch at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. + Read More | ||
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| Two NASA Dryden Small Business Tech Transfer Projects Funded
Two proposals submitted by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are among 18 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) advanced concept flight research proposals selected by NASA for Phase 2 contract negotiations. + Read More | ||
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| Astronaut Vance Brand To Speak At NASA's Palmdale Gallery
Former Apollo-Soyuz and space shuttle astronaut Vance Brand will discuss his space travels the afternoon of Saturday, April 21, at the NASA Aerospace Exploration Gallery in the Palmdale Civic Center. + Read More | ||
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| Airborne Science in the Classroom
NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (NAMMA) probes an easterly atmospheric wave off the African continent. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Awards SOFIA Development, Engineering Pact to L-3 Communications
Dryden has awarded a contract to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P. for continued developmental and engineering work on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). + Read More | ||
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| Phoenix Missile Hypersonic Testbed
Researchers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, Calif., are investigating the use of surplus demilitarized Navy AIM-54 Phoenix air-launched missiles as possible hypersonic test platforms or testbeds. + Read More | ||
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| 2006 – A Year of Challenge and Accomplishment at NASA Dryden
A year of challenge, a year of transition, a year of accomplishment – that was 2006 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. + Read More | ||
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| Learning NASA History Pays Off For Students
Would you like to win a NASA flight jacket? That was the question posed to students across the United States by the education office at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Provides Rapid Response to State Emergency Service Request
When the Esperanza fire in Southern California ignited on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006, the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the Esperanza Fire Incident Command Center requested NASA's imaging and fire mapping assistance to support the team of fire fighters battling the rapidly-growing wildfire. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Awards Consulting Engineering Contracts
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded contracts to five companies for professional engineering and management services to aid the center in acquiring world-class flight research, test and operational-oriented projects. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Supports UAS Fire Mapping Efforts on California Fire
A team led by NASA and U.S. Forest Service scientists recently collected real-time, visible and infrared data from sensors onboard a remotely piloted aircraft over the Esperanza Fire in Southern California. + Read More | ||
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| Five High-Tech Firms Receive SBIR Contracts From NASA Dryden
Five small high-technology firms have been selected by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center for research and development contracts under Phase II of NASA's Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden's Jim Sokolik Reaches Unique ER-2 Milestone
Jim Sokolik recently became the man who launched 1,000 ships. Well, not exactly sea-going ships. Sokolik reached his personal milestone by launching his 1,000th mission when one of the two ER-2 aircraft that NASA Dryden Flight Research Center operates for NASA's high-altitude science program took to the sky in mid-September. + View | ||
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| Gulfstream, NASA Dryden Joust with Supersonic Shockwaves
Gulfstream Aerospace and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center have teamed in a project called Quiet SpikeTM to investigate the suppression of sonic booms. + View | ||
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| Fuel-Cell Flier
California students among the first to fly a fuel cell-powered aircraft. + Read More | ||
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| 50th Anniversary of the X-2
Two aerospace milestones that involved both triumph and tragedy. + Read More | ||
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| DARPA, NASA Dryden Joint Effort
First Hands-Off Autonomous Aerial Refueling + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Sponsors Student Historical Essay Competition
Would you like to win a NASA flight jacket? That is one of the prizes in a national history competition for students in grades five through 12 sponsored by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Names Orion Contractor
Orion is the central member of a family of spacecraft and shuttle-derived launchers that will go to the moon and Mars. + Read More | ||
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| Native American Students Excited By NASA Astronaut Visit
"When I was eight years old, I sat in a cardboard refrigerator box and dreamed of going to the moon". + Read More | ||
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| SR-71 Blackbird Simulator Leaves NASA Dryden for New Home
One of the last vestiges of the SR-71 high-speed flight project at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center was hauled away on a flatbed truck in early July. + View | ||
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| NASA'S Vision For Space Exploration Exhibit
Visitors to this year's Antelope Valley Fair in Lancaster can take a journey into a virtual reality solar system. + Read More | ||
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| Composite Creations
NASA Dryden develops new fabrication capability + Read More | ||
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| At NASA Exhibit, What Goes Up Must... Well... Go Up
It takes a lot of crane to lift a three-and-a-half-ton space shuttle main engine up from its trailer. + Read More | ||
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| ER-2 Aloft Again
One of NASA's two high-flying ER-2 Earth resources aircraft, took to the skies recently from NASA's Dryden on its first science mission in over two years. + View | ||
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| NASA Dryden Manager Honored
Jeffrey E. Bauer, an aerospace engineer and project manager at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, was honored recently by Unmanned Vehicle Systems International with its 2006 Catherine Fargeon Award. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Begins Blended Wing-Body Wind Tunnel Tests
Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., are testing a 21-foot wingspan 8.5 percent scale prototype of a blended wing body aircraft in Langley's historic full-scale wind tunnel. + View | ||
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| Middle School Students Demo Robots on July 1
Six teams of Antelope Valley middle school students will maneuver robots on July 1 in Palmdale. + View | ||
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| NASA Announces Dryden Support Services Contract
NASA has selected Kay and Associates, Inc., to provide aerospace ground equipment support services for the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center. + View | ||
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| Former NASA Dryden Research Pilot Bruce Peterson Dies
Former NASA Dryden Flight Research Center pilot and engineer Bruce A. Peterson died May 1 in Laguna Niguel following a lengthy illness. He was 72. + View | ||
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| Scott Crossfield: 1921-2006
+ Read More + Administrator's Statement | ||
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| NASA Dryden Contractors Win Top SBA Awards
Two contractors at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base are among more than 100 American small businesses honored in April by the U.S. Small Business Administration, one of them as National Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden: 60 Years of Pushing the Envelope
Celebrating 60 years of flight research at NASA Dryden + Read More | ||
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| Aldrin Named Ambassador of Exploration
Former astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was honored with NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award Saturday evening at the California Science Center in Los Angeles + Read More | ||
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| First Space Shuttle Landing to be Recalled at Media Briefing
NASA retirees and others who played a major role in the first space shuttle landing at Edwards Air Force Base 25 years ago will gather on Monday, April 10 + Read More | ||
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| California Students See the Door to Outer Space
California students gathered for a special live conversation with the space station's Expedition 12 crew. + Read More | ||
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| The Wright Experience Revisited
Kevin Kochersberger, the pilot who flew an exact replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer built for the Centennial of Flight observances in 2003, outlined his recollections of the four-year project during a presentation March 8 at NASA Dryden. + Read More | ||
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| Two Dryden Employees Win Top NASA Safety Awards
Two employees of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base have been honored with the agency's Quality and Safety Achievement Recognition award for contributing to the awareness and leadership of safety efforts at Dryden. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Shares Aerospace Interests with Industry Leaders.
Aeronautical research capabilities are highlighted. + Read More | ||
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| Phoenix School Celebrates Explorer Status With Astronaut Visit
Students learn about perseverance and life in space. + Read More | ||
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| Local Teachers Fly Experiment On NASA's 'Weightless Wonder'
Two science teachers from Gifford C. Cole Middle School in east Lancaster are taking their experiments out of the classroom and into NASA's "Weightless Wonder," a flying microgravity laboratory. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden's Vance Brand Honored As Ambassador Of Exploration
Former NASA astronaut Vance Brand is being honored by the nation's aerospace agency as an Ambassador of Exploration for his involvement in the Apollo space program in the 1960s and early 1970s. + Read More | ||
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| Dryden Videographer Lori Losey Wins Aviation Week Photo Award
Videographer Lori Losey has captured some spectacular video footage during her 17 years documenting flight research for NASA at the Dryden Flight Research Center. + Read More | ||
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| 2005 - A Year Of Challenges, Accomplishments, Honors At NASA Dryden
The safe landing of the space shuttle Discovery and the presentation of astronaut wings to three civilian research pilots who flew the X-15 rocket plane highlighted a year of challenge and accomplishment at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Engineer Honored by Mexican-American Engineering Group
An aerospace engineer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has been named the recipient of the National Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES) top award for 2005. + Read More | ||
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| Altair UAV Flies Lengthy Science Missions For NOAA
The NOAA and NASA concluded a joint series of environmental science demonstration flights with the Altair UAV in mid-November. + Read More | ||
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| Associate Administrator Briefed at Dryden
Scott Horowitz of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate was briefed on NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's capabilities to support the agency's space exploration goals + Read More | ||
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| Author James Hansen Outlines Early Career Of Neil Armstrong At Dryden
Historian James Hansen, author of the recently published biography of Neil Armstrong "First Man," outlined highlights of Armstrong's seven years as a research pilot and engineer. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Touts Its Research Tools At Long Beach Aerospace Testing Expo
Supersonic research aircraft and legendary wind tunnels are the exotic tools being promoted by NASA engineers and pilots at Aerospace Testing Expo 2005 + Read More | ||
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| X-43A Hypersonic Program Wins NASA's Top Administrator's Award
NASA's Turning Goals into Reality program has recognized the Hyper-X Program Team with its highest aeronautical honor, the Administrators Award. + Read More + View Video of Flight | ||
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| Catching Heat Waves
Thermals might assist UAVs. + Read More + Read Full News Release 05-63 + Photos + View Video (4.4 Mb QT) | ||
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| Dreams of Jeannie: NASA on Classic TV
NASA on Classic TV + Read More | ||
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| Neil Armstrong Recalls Test Pilot Days
Astronaut Armstrong recalls the organization's origins. + Read More | ||
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| Former NASA Pilot Ed Schneider Inducted Into Aerospace Walk Of Honor
The City of Lancaster, Calif., inducted former NASA research pilot Edward T. Schneider into its Aerospace Walk of Honor Sept. 24. + Read More | ||
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| 'Fast Eddie' Joins Pilots Walk of Honor
NASA Pilot Joins Walk of Honor + Read More | ||
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| Cal Poly Students Participate in NASA Flight Research Test
Aerospace engineering students spent a recent Saturday on a lake -- not sailing but helping NASA study aircraft takeoff and landing noise. + Read More | ||
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| Pathfinder Plus Solar Aircraft Completes Turbulence Tests At Dryden
The Pathfinder-Plus solar-electric flying wing recently completed a short series of research flights from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to investigate the effects of turbulence on lightweight flexible wing structures + Read More | ||
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| Forecasting for Flight
When NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and AeroVironment, Inc. flew the company's Pathfinder-Plus solar-electric aircraft recently, the weather mattered; it mattered a lot. + Read More | ||
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| X-15 Space Pioneers Now Honored as Astronauts
In a turbulent era of 1960s Cold War confrontations, moon race headlines, and war in southeast Asia, eight military and civilian test pilots flew the radical X-15 rocket plane out of the atmosphere and into the record books, earning astronaut status. + Read More | ||
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| Paintbrush and Mouse
NASA Artists a Study in Contrasts + Read More | ||
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| Space Shuttle Update - August 22
The Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery arrived back at the Kennedy Space Center after a three-day cross-country ferry flight from Edwards Air Force Base. + Read More | ||
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| Brand Honored At Jethawks' Aerospace Appreciation Night
Former Apollo-Soyuz and Space Shuttle astronaut Vance Brand was honored this past weekend by the Lancaster Jethawks Class A California League baseball team during its annual Aerospace Appreciation Night. + Read More | ||
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| NASA's two F-15 research aircraft
NASA's two F-15 research aircraft don't get a lot of flight hours, and it's even less frequent that they are in the air together on the same mission. + Read More | ||
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| Space Shuttle launch viewed live at AirVenture
Visitors and NASA employees cheer Discovery launch. + Read More | ||
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| NASA'S ER-2 Flies Over Hurricane Emily's Eye
As Hurricane Emily lashes the coast of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, a high-flying NASA ER-2 earth sciences aircraft from the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., flew high over the storm as it moved across the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Mexico. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Funds Exploratory Studies For Quieting Sonic Boom
NASA and several industry teams are studying how to design and build an aircraft that could demonstrate technology to lessen the noise and window-rattling effects of supersonic flight. + Read More | ||
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| Local Elementary Teachers At NASA Dryden For Math/Science Workshop
Fifty teachers will spend a day this week exploring the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., as part of a larger educational program funded through the California Department of Education. + Read More | ||
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| Dryden to Host Media Briefing, Tour on Shuttle Preparations July 6.
NASA's Return-to-Flight Space Shuttle mission, designated STS-114, is tentatively set for mid-July. The shuttle orbiter Discovery will be launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is scheduled to land there about 12 days later. + Read More | ||
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 | NASA Dryden's Kevin Walsh withdraws from Race Across America
NASA Dryden aerospace engineer Kevin Walsh withdrew from the Race Across America cross-country bicycle race Thursday due to respiratory difficulties and exhaustion. + Daily Progress Updates + Dryden employees support Walsh's RAAM effort | ||
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| Teachers Attend NASA 'Explorer School' Math/Science Workshop
Sixteen teachers from 10 states are participating this week in a workshop at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards designed to aid educators in incorporating NASA-based material into their science and math curriculum. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Spacecraft Measures Unusual 2005 Arctic Ozone Conditions
NASA's Aura spacecraft showed that other atmospheric processes restored ozone amounts to near average and stopped high levels of harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching Earth's surface. + Read More | ||
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| Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chairman Visits NASA Dryden
Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, was briefed by X-43A engineer Laurie Grindle during a tour of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center June 2. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden's Gwen Young: Diversity is Her Strength
Gwen's Young's life has been anything but ordinary since she joined NASA as a Presidential Management Intern at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. some 22 years ago. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden's Trong Bui Selected for NAFP Fellowship
Trong Bui, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, will have the opportunity to share some of the most current NASA engineering technology at two regional universities following his selection as a 2005 NASA Administrator's Fellowship Program (NAFP) Fellow. + Read More | ||
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| Media Credential Deadlines for Space Shuttle Mission STS-114 Extended
Following the postponement of the Space Shuttle Return-to-Flight Mission STS-114 from May to July, NASA is extending the deadline for news media organizations to seek credentials for on-site coverage of the event at the Kennedy and Johnson Space Centers and Dryden Flight Research Center. + Read More | ||
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| Menlo Park Technology Firm Awarded NASA Research Grant
A Menlo Park high-technology firm has won a NASA research grant under the aerospace agency's Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) program that could improve the efficiency of computer flight simulation for a wide variety of aircraft. + Read More | ||
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| NASA and NOAA join in UAV flight demonstration
NASA's pioneering work with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could boost the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's quest for life-saving atmospheric and environmental information. + Read More | ||
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| Harford Technology Firm Receives NASA Research Grant
A high-technology firm in Harford, N.Y., has won a NASA research grant under the aerospace agency's Small Business Technology Transfer + Read More | ||
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| Guppy Gear
NASA's Super Guppy gets a new landing gear. + Read More | ||
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| Students Intrigued by NASA Career Possibilities.
NASA Explorer School students encouraged by opportunities. + Read More | ||
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| Dryden's Lori Losey Named NASA Videographer Of Year
A videographer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has won the aerospace agency's highest award for videography for 2004. + Read More | ||
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| Space Shuttle Landing Training Exercise
Personnel from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and Edwards Air Force Base conducted a training exercise this past weekend that would enable them to effectively handle the rescue of a Space Shuttle crew in the unlikely event of a landing mishap at the base. + Read More | ||
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| NOAA and NASA Begin California UAV Flight Experiment
Can unmanned aircraft be used effectively for Earth Science experiments? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in cooperation with NASA and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI), are seeking to answer that question during a series of atmospheric and oceanic research flights off the California coastline this spring. + Read More | ||
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| Public Meeting On NASA Dryden TCE Cleanup Plan Scheduled
A proposed plan to clean up potentially hazardous chemical contamination at three groundwater sites at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base will be outlined a public meeting in California City April 27. + Read More | ||
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| Gordon Fullerton Inducted into Astronaut Hall of Fame
+ Read More | ||
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| Michael Griffin Takes Helm as NASA Administrator
+ Read More + Biography + News Release 05-096 + Senate Testimony (PDF) | ||
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| NASA Dryden's X-43 Team Represented At Aviation Week's Laurel Awards
Two members of the X-43 flight research project team from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center were on hand Tuesday evening, April 5, when the X-43 / Hyper-X project team and several of its major players were honored by Aviation Week and Space Technology. + Read More | ||
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| Robots' work extends beyond physical tasks in Las Vegas.
Student teams compete. + Read More | ||
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| Command Performance
Brig. Gen. Curtis Bedke, commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, received some first-hand insight this week on how to fly a Space Shuttle approach and landing + Read More | ||
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| NASA Credentialing Media for Possible Shuttle Landing at Edwards AFB
The Space Shuttle Discovery is targeted for launch from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on the Return-to-Flight mission STS-114 during a window between May 15 and June 3. Discovery is scheduled to land at KSC at the conclusion of the mission about 11 days later. However, if the weather or other conditions prevent a landing in Florida, the shuttle could be diverted to the primary back-up landing site at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. + Read More | ||
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| Noted NASA Aeronautics Researcher Dale Reed Dies
Robert Dale Reed, a distinguished NASA aeronautics researcher who pioneered Lifting Body and remotely piloted research aircraft programs at the Dryden Flight Research Center in the 1960s and 70s has died. + Read More | ||
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| New Flight Software Allows UAVs To Team Up For Virtual Fire Experiment
The old saying, "birds of a feather, flock together," can now be applied to a couple of small uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) flown in a NASA research experiment using principles derived from studies of fish and bird motions to simultaneously guide them around obstacles. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Flight Tests Validate Active Aeroelastic Wing Design Concept
A flight research project that put a 21st century twist on a century-old technology -- a high-tech derivative of the Wright brothers' wing-warping method of controlling an aircraft's turning ability -- can be summed up in two words: "It works!" + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Engineer Wins Prestigious Engineering Award
The National Society of Black Engineers will honor NASA aeronautical engineer Laurie Marshall with the 2005 Golden Torch Award for Outstanding Woman in Technology of the Year. + Read More | ||
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| Navy E-2C Hawkeye Undergoes Major Loads Tests at NASA Dryden
A U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye, a carrier-based electronics aircraft that serves as the eyes and ears of carrier battle groups, recently underwent structural loads tests at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Flight Loads Laboratory to determine if increasing the aircraft's gross weight will affect its performance. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Celebrates 90 Years Of Aeronautics Excellence
On March 3, NASA marked the 90th anniversary of its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and the achievements of nearly a century of work in NASA's keystone discipline, aeronautics. + Read More | ||
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| Space Shuttle Return To Flight Gets A "LIFT" From NASA Dryden F-15B
To help the Space Shuttle safely return to flight, NASA engineers are acquiring data on how insulating foam debris or "divots" behave when these small pieces are shed from the Shuttle's external fuel tank during launch. + Read More | ||
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| T-38 Supersonic Trainer Jet Gets New Home
A sleek, supersonic T-38 trainer jet is taxied into the parking ramp at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center by Dryden's chief pilot Gordon Fullerton. + Read More | ||
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| International Science Team Measures Arctic's Atmosphere
An international team of scientists aboard NASA's DC-8 Flying Laboratory recently completed a three-week mission to improve modeling of global scale air quality and climate change predictions. The Polar Aura Validation Experiment (PAVE) took high quality measurements of the arctic region's atmosphere and gathered information to validate data from NASA's Aura satellite. + Read More | ||
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| NASA's Starfighters
With a name like Starfighter, F-104s were destined to serve NASA in the extreme regime of high-speed flight research. + Read More | ||
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| Vietnamese Immigrant's Dreams Find Reality As A NASA Aerospace Engineer
Conducting mock dogfights with neighborhood friends on bicycles as the children pretended they were flying jet fighters was one of Trong Bui's memories from his childhood in Vietnam. + Read More | ||
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| Solar Array Demonstrates Commercial Potential at NASA Dryden
A state-of-the-art solar array is providing a unique opportunity to demonstrate the latest in high-efficiency solar cells available for terrestrial use at a demonstration site at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Explorer School Teachers Visit Dryden Flight Research Center
Teachers from Edwards Middle School, a NASA Explorer School at Edwards Air Force Base, recently toured NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. + Read More | ||
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| 2004: A Year of Significant Milestones at NASA Dryden
As 2004 drew to a close, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base looked back on a year of challenge and accomplishment in its role of NASA's lead center for atmospheric flight research. + Read More | ||
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| NASA's Famed B-52B "Mothership" Retirement
The end of an era in aerospace history was marked Friday, Dec. 17, when NASA retired its venerable B-52B "mothership" heavy-lift launch aircraft. + Read More | ||
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| NASA's Famous B-52B Retires
An airplane that always carried the future under its wing. + Read More | ||
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| DC-8 completes Alaskan mission
NASA's DC-8 traveled to frosty Alaska in November to study active volcanoes, the Hubbard glacier, forests and sea ice. Using the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR), digital elevation models were taken that will allow scientists to evaluate landscape changes and assess volcanic hazards. + Read More + View Dec 04 issue of X-Press | ||
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| NASA Dryden Deploys "ChemSecure" Hazmat Management System
Dryden is implementing an extensive wireless, sensor-based system aimed at improving the management of hazardous materials. + Read More | ||
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| NASA'S X-43A
Scramjet Breaks Speed Record + Read More | ||
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| Mach 10 Marvel
This high-risk flight demanded that no details be overlooked. + Read More | ||
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| X-43A Engineer
NASA Dryden's Laurie Marshall explores hypersonic flight. + Read More | ||
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| NASA Dryden Memorial Scholarship Winner Announced
Kerisha Schultz was recently named the recipient of the Joseph A. Walker Memorial Scholarship. + Read More | ||
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| New Explorers
Newest astronaut candidates energized by visit to NASA Dryden. + Read More | ||
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| E-2C Hawkeye
Loads Lab Tapped for 7-Month Navy Job + Read More | ||
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| UAVs Taking Center Stage
Dryden role extends to include other areas of aeronautics research. + Read More | ||
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