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C-47
C-47

The C-47/R4D Skytrain was one of the work horses for NACA and NASA at Edwards AFB spanning a time from…

Solar Dynamics Observatory Welcomes the New Year
Solar Dynamics Observatory Welcomes the New Year

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observed the sun starting 2015 with an enormous coronal hole near the South Pole.

Where Are They Now: X-1
Where Are They Now: X-1

The first generation X-1 aircraft changed aviation history in numerous ways, and not simply because they were the first aircraft…

C-130B
C-130B

NASA acquired the C-130B based at Dryden Flight Research Center in July of 1968. The aircraft was used by the…

Ceres, Target of NASA’s Dawn Mission
Ceres, Target of NASA’s Dawn Mission

Discovered on Jan. 1, 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi of Italy, Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt -…

Space Simulation Chamber Prepared for Testing Webb Telescope
Space Simulation Chamber Prepared for Testing Webb Telescope

Outside the enormous mouth of NASA's giant thermal vacuum chamber, called Chamber A, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers…

C-140
C-140

A C-140 JetStar was flown by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center from 1964 to 1989 on a variety of projects…

Wind Celebrates 20 Years of Monitoring the Solar Wind
Wind Celebrates 20 Years of Monitoring the Solar Wind

The Wind spacecraft has spent much of its 20 years in space out in front of Earth's magnetic field.

View of the Alps From Space
View of the Alps From Space

Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) took this photograph of the Alps and posted…

C-141A
C-141A

In 1997 and 1998, the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California, supported and hosted a Kelly Space & Technology,…