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New B-52 Pylon for the X-38 Passes Fit-Check
New B-52 Pylon for the X-38 Passes Fit-Check

The new pylon for the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle, following a fit-check on NASA's B-52 at the Dryden Flight Research…

Orion AFT Project Manager Interviewed in Front of the Crew Module
Orion AFT Project Manager Interviewed in Front of the Crew Module

Reporter Julie Flannery of KERO-TV, Bakersfield, interviewed NASA Dryden's Orion AFT project manager Gary Martin in front of the Orion…

Second X-43A and Modified Pegasus Booster Achieve Free Flight
Second X-43A and Modified Pegasus Booster Achieve Free Flight

The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket accelerated after launch from NASA's B-52B launch aircraft…

Guinness Recognizes X-43A World Speed Record
Guinness Recognizes X-43A World Speed Record

Guinness World Records formally recognized the NASA X-43A Hyper-X world speed record for an aircraft propelled by an air-breathing engine…

Centurion
Centurion

Framed by wispy contrails left by passing jets high above, a quarter-scale model of the Centurion solar-electric flying wing shows…

Centurion
Centurion

The Centurion solar-electric flying wing, one of several remotely piloted aircraft being developed under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor…

Centurion
Centurion

As sunlight breaks over Southern California's El Mirage Dry Lake, Crew members prepare a battery-powered quarter-scale prototype of the remotely-piloted…

Fit-Check for the 1,200-lb Steel Pylon on B-52
Fit-Check for the 1,200-lb Steel Pylon on B-52

Tom McMullen, chief of Dryden's Experimental Fabrication Shop, adjusted the new pylon for NASA's X-38 Crew Return Vehicle during a…

B-52 with F/A-18 Chase Before X-43A Air Launch
B-52 with F/A-18 Chase Before X-43A Air Launch

The first X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket were carried aloft by NASA's NB-52B carrier aircraft…

Third X-43A Undergoes Captive-Carry Flight
Third X-43A Undergoes Captive-Carry Flight

Attached to the same B-52B mothership that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's third X-43A performed a…