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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,…

Centurion
Centurion

The Centurion solar-powered aircraft was one of an on-going series of vehicles designed for ultra-long-duration flight at high altitudes. The…

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

The second generation X-1s used the same wing, horizontal tail, and XLR-11 rocket engine as the first generation aircraft, with…

Frosty Slopes on Mars
Frosty Slopes on Mars

This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies…