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Day of Remembrance
Day of Remembrance

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden participates in a wreath laying ceremony as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Friday, Jan. 31,…

Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo
Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo

With its towline barely visible against the blue sky, the DROID-3 tow plane hauls a sub-scale sailplane through the air…

Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo
Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo

Instrumentation engineer Otto Schnarr at left and principal investigator Jim Murray assist operations engineer and model lab technician Robert "Red"…

Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo
Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo

While operations engineer and Dryden model shop technician Red Jensen prepares to mount the canopy over a subscale sailplane's avionics,…

Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo
Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo

Principal investigator Jim Murray prepares the towline while operations engineer Red Jensen checks out the radio controller for a sub-scale…

Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo
Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo

A 1/3-scale unmanned sailplane shows off its graceful high-aspect-ratio wing as it descends for landing during preliminary flight tests of…

Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo
Towed Glider Air Launch Concept – UAS-to-UAS Air Tow Demo

With a 1/3-scale sailplane behind it already in the air, the DROID-3 tow plane rotates for takeoff from the dry…

View of the Earth From the Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule
View of the Earth From the Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule

On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. had a view of Earth that no American had seen before,…

Solar Dynamics Observatory Sees Lunar Transit
Solar Dynamics Observatory Sees Lunar Transit

On Jan. 30, 2014, beginning at 8:31 a.m EST, the moon moved between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and…

SDO Lunar Transit in Six Wavelengths
SDO Lunar Transit in Six Wavelengths

A rainbow of lunar transits as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on January 30, 2014.