NASA's two Global Hawks in their blue-and-white paint scheme lined up nose-to-nose on the ramp at NASA's Dryden Flight Research…
This view from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows tracks left by backing out of a…
The 100th flight of the heavy-weight lifting bodies was completed on October 5, 1972, with pilot Bill Dana soaring to…
Flight Research Center engineer R. Dale Reed has long used free-flight models to test new concepts.
Richard C. Eldredge, Dale Reed, James O. Newman, and Bob McDonald with the mothership (top) and other models.
The success of Dryden's M2-F1 program led to NASA's development and construction of two heavyweight lifting bodies based on studies…
After the M2-F1 (left) proved the lifting-body concept, NASA and the Air Force began work on a series of heavyweight,…
NASA Flight Research Center pilot John Manke is shown here on the lakebed next to the HL-10, one of four…
The HL-10 Lifting Body is seen here in flight over Rogers Dry Lakebed. Like the other lifting bodies, the HL-10…
The HL-10 touches down on its main landing gear, while the pilot was holding the nose up to slow the…
