NASA Administrator Charles Bolden participates in a wreath laying ceremony as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Friday, Jan. 31,…
With its towline barely visible against the blue sky, the DROID-3 tow plane hauls a sub-scale sailplane through the air…
Instrumentation engineer Otto Schnarr at left and principal investigator Jim Murray assist operations engineer and model lab technician Robert "Red"…
While operations engineer and Dryden model shop technician Red Jensen prepares to mount the canopy over a subscale sailplane's avionics,…
Principal investigator Jim Murray prepares the towline while operations engineer Red Jensen checks out the radio controller for a sub-scale…
A 1/3-scale unmanned sailplane shows off its graceful high-aspect-ratio wing as it descends for landing during preliminary flight tests of…
With a 1/3-scale sailplane behind it already in the air, the DROID-3 tow plane rotates for takeoff from the dry…
On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. had a view of Earth that no American had seen before,…
On Jan. 30, 2014, beginning at 8:31 a.m EST, the moon moved between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and…
A rainbow of lunar transits as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on January 30, 2014.