
The cockpit of NASA ER-2 #809 high-altitude research aircraft is open and ready for flight.

Surrounded by work platforms, the full-scale Orion AFT crew module (center) was undergoing preparations for the first flight test of…

This Large Area Collector sensor is carried under the wing of a high-altitude NASA ER-2.

The Large Area Collector sensor was mounted under the wing of NASA's ER-2 high-altitude aircraft as it awaited a cosmic…

NASA's Airborne Science DC-8, displaying new colors in a check flight Feb. 24, 2004, over the Dryden Flight Research Center.

NASA crew chief Pat Lloyd readied the Large Area Collector sensor for a cosmic dust collection flight.

One of NASA's two ER-2 Earth resources aircraft soared over the crowd during the 2009 Air Force Materiel Command's Freedom's…

Surrounded by work platforms, the full-scale Orion AFT crew module (center) was undergoing preparations for the first flight test of…

One of NASA's two ER-2 Earth science aircraft showed off its lines during a flyover at the Edwards Air Force…

ER-2 #809 landed in Kiruna, Sweden after second flight of the SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE).