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.
As part of NASA’s ongoing effort to deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) using commercially-developed space systems, a…
NASA's X-34 program was initiated in 1996 to provide a low-cost advanced technology flight demonstration test bed vehicle for space…
