Former Center DirectorsX-34 rollout ceremony April 30, 1999 - David Thompson, Arthur Stephenson, Dan Goldin, Kevin Petersen, and General Richard Reynolds.NASA Dryden Center Director Kevin Petersen speaking at the X-34 rollout ceremony April 30, 1999.New NASA Administrator Michael Griffin (right) shares a moment with center director Kevin Petersen (left) and F-15B project manager Stephen...NASA Dryden research pilot Jim Smolka (left) details a recent flight experiment on a modified F-15B.Bob McCall and NASA Dryden Director Kevin Petersen stand by "Celebrating One Hundred Years of Powered Flight, 1903-2003", in the...Kevin L. Petersen was director of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA from Feb. 8, 1999 until his...Kenneth J. Szalai was director of the NASA Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, until July 31, 1998.Ken Szalai, Wilton Lock, Bill Petersen, Jim Phelps, Jim Craft, Leo Lett, Dwain Deets, Cal JarvisIn May, 1984, Martin A. Knutson was appointed Director of Flight Operations for NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field,...Armstrong research pilot (and future center director) John Manke emerges from the HL-10, NASA Langley’s 10th horizontal lander (lifting body).Sally Ride (third from left), the first American woman to go into space, and her fellow astronauts on space shuttle...The four principal HL-10 pilots are seen here with the lifting body aircraft. From left to right, they are Air...Not every moment of a test pilot's day is serious business. In a moment of levity, NASA pilots Bill Dana...NASA research pilot John A. Manke is seen here in front of the M2-F3 Lifting Body.This 1976 photo shows the X-24B lifting body on the Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to the NASA Dryden Flight Research...The 100th flight of the heavy-weight lifting bodies was completed on October 5, 1972, with pilot Bill Dana soaring to...M2-F3 Lifting Body PilotsE-22901 Posing for this photo in front of the M2-F3 are (left-right) Air Force pilot Captain Jerauld...NASA Flight Research Center pilot John Manke is shown here on the lakebed next to the HL-10, one of four...John Manke with the X-24B lifting body after a 1975 flight.NASA research pilot John Manke with the X-24B lifting body on the bed of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air...John A. Manke was the Director of Flight Operations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center.Isaac T. Gillam, IV was director of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, June 18, 1978 to Oct....After completing its first orbital mission with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base on April 14, 1981, Space Shuttle...David R. Scott was the director of NASA's Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA from Apr. 18,...Apollo 15 was the fourth lunar landing mission.At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, President Jimmy Carter, hand on waist, is briefed on preparations for the first...President Jimmy Carter, with wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy, listen to Lee R. Scherer, center director from 1974 to 1979,...Lee R. Scherer was the director of NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA from Oct. 11, 1971 until Jan. 19,...De E. Beeler had a distinguished 33-year career as an aeronautical engineer and administrator with the National Advisory Committee for...The NACA Muroc Contingent in October 1947 in front of the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 and Boeing B-29 launch aircraft.Paul F. Bikle was formerly the technical director of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, CA.