
The Hyper III was a full-scale lifting-body remotely piloted research vehicle (RPRV) built at what was then the NASA Flight…

Alma Warner (front) and Karen Estes use sophisticated computer software programming to calibrate a gyro package in the Avionics lab…

The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…

The M2-F1 lifting body, dubbed the "flying bathtub" by the media, was the precursor of a remarkable series of wingless…

Proteus in flight over mountains near Las Cruces, NM.

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 sat on the Rogers Dry Lakebed at Muroc Air Force Base, CA in 1949.

Jack McKay was one of the first pilots assigned to the X-15 flight research program at NASA's Flight Research Center,…

The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…

The Kiel air data probe on the noseboom on the X-31 aircraft shows the orifices used to collect air pressure…

Vance D. Brand portrait after being selected for the Apollo program.