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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…

Orion LAS AFT NASA Logo
Orion LAS AFT NASA Logo

NASA Dryden visual communications manager Steve Lighthill smoothed out a NASA logo decal after affixing it to the Orion test…

AirSAR: Close-up View of Grey Glacier from Lago Grey
AirSAR: Close-up View of Grey Glacier from Lago Grey

Close-up view of Grey Glacier from Lago Grey (Grey Lake), taken during NASA's AirSAR 2004 campaign in Chile.

AirSAR: DC-8 Takes Off From Airport in Costa Rica
AirSAR: DC-8 Takes Off From Airport in Costa Rica

NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory takes off from Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, on NASA's AirSAR 2004…

NASA’s DC-8 Flying Laboratory After Supporting the AirSAR 2004
NASA’s DC-8 Flying Laboratory After Supporting the AirSAR 2004

NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory seen at sunset after a flight supporting the AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica campaign.

Instrumentation Set Up for DC-8 Alternative Fuels Testing
Instrumentation Set Up for DC-8 Alternative Fuels Testing

Test instrumentation is set up behind the inboard engines of NASA's DC-8 airborne science laboratory during alternative fuels emissions and…