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7-by10-foot High Speed Wind Tunnel Teardown
7-by10-foot High Speed Wind Tunnel Teardown

Like a hungry t-rex, the jaws of an excavator rip into the walls of the 7-by-10-foot high speed wind tunnel.

Mars’ Spring Storms
Mars’ Spring Storms

Early spring typically brings dust storms to northern polar regions of Mars. As the north polar cap begins to thaw,…

X-48B Tested in Langley’s Full-Scale Wind Tunnel
X-48B Tested in Langley’s Full-Scale Wind Tunnel

Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA, tested the a 21-foot wingspan 8.5 percent scale prototype of a…

X-48B Studied for its Structural, Aerodynamic, and Operational Advantages
X-48B Studied for its Structural, Aerodynamic, and Operational Advantages

Boeing Phantom Works partnered with NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory to study the structural, aerodynamic, and operational advantages…

Boeing, NASA, and AFRL Study the Blended Wing Body Concept
Boeing, NASA, and AFRL Study the Blended Wing Body Concept

Boeing Phantom Works partnered with NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory to study the structural, aerodynamic, and operational advantages…

Boeing Begins Initial Flight Tests of X-48B
Boeing Begins Initial Flight Tests of X-48B

Boeing Phantom Works' subscale Blended Wing Body technology demonstration aircraft began its initial flight tests from NASA's Dryden Flight Research…

Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits
Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits

At the center of spiral galaxy M81 is a supermassive black hole about 70 million times more massive than our…

Global Hawks Bring New Capabilities to Science Community
Global Hawks Bring New Capabilities to Science Community

Two Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration aircraft were transferred from the U.S. Air Force to NASA's Dryden…

Mir Means Home
Mir Means Home

Astronaut Shannon W. Lucid made history in 1996 on the Russian Mir Space Station, her home for six months, as…

We Have Liftoff!
We Have Liftoff!

Space shuttle Discovery blasts away from Launch Pad 39A atop towers of flame as it races toward space on its…