Dryden Flight Research Center
P.O. Box 273
Edwards, California 93523
Phone 661-276-3449
FAX 661-276-3566
Three astronomers will participate in the first scientific observations to be conducted by the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
Engineers and technicians from NASA, the German Space Agency and the Deutsches SOFIA Institut recently reinstalled the German-built primary mirror assembly into NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, airborne observatory.
Multi-year contract for engineering, technical and product support services.
NASA is partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service on a project to examine the mission suitability of Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 fire retardant delivery aircraft.
Kevin L. Petersen, Director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, recently announced appointments to several management positions at the NASA field center.
As the morning of Sept. 23, 1975 dawned over the Southern California high desert, a team of engineers, technicians and flight crew busily prepared for what would be the last chapter in a flight research program that had spanned more than a dozen years.
Jill Pestana, a graduate of the Class of 2008 at Tehachapi High School, has been selected by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Employee Exchange Council to receive the 2008 Harold W. Walker Memorial Scholarship award.
The planned retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2010 will bring to a close an era that opened in the high desert of Southern California nearly a half century ago.
NASA intern Brian Armstrong has always been interested in aviation, thanks to the influence of his aerospace engineer father.
Dryden has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman for engineering and technical services in support of the center's planned operation of two Global Hawk aircraft.
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