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A Model Internship

Marr kneels beside UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter hub hardware

09.02.08

Winning an internship contest gave Conor Marr the opportunity to simulate helicopter dynamics at NASA.

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Team to Investigate Launch Failure

08.22.08

The booster carrying NASA's Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition (HYBOLT) and Sub-Orbital Aerodynamic Re-entry Experiments (SOAREX) had to be destroyed shortly after liftoff Aug. 22.

National Aviation Day Highlights the Future of Flight

08.19.08

In the Visitors' Center, author and historian Tom Crouch stood in front of a replica of the Wright Brothers original plane and told an assembly the story of the beginning of manned flight.

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Retired NASA Test Pilot Bill Dana Honored

Retired NASA Dryden Flight Research Center test pilot Bill Dana was honored Saturday evening, Aug. 9, by the Lancaster Jethawks Class A baseball team during its annual Aerospace Appreciation Night.
NASA Engineer Long Time EAAer

Tony Ginn comes from a flying family. He carries on that tradition at work and at home.
NASA Administrator Visits EAA AirVenture 2008

For a pilot, going to EAA's AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., is like a kid walking into a candy store.
EAA AirVenture 2008

NASA and Administrator Mike Griffin join aviation enthusiasts and aerospace pioneers at EAA AirVenture 2008 in Oshkosh, Wis.
Wind Tunnel Workers Watch Sadly as 7X10 Disappears

Like a long-necked, yellow carnivore, the crane lunges forward. Its jaws take another bite of metal, and then the crane pulls back so that the jaws can drop their load into a truck.

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NASA And Air Force Work To Establish Hypersonic Science Centers

09.22.08 - NASA and the United States Air Force are looking for university and industry partners as they work to advance hypersonic research.
NASA Challenges Students to Imagine Supersonic Airliner

09.04.08 - A new NASA competition is challenging students in high school and college to research and describe a small, supersonic airliner that could enter commercial service in the next decade.
NASA Accepts Aeronautics Scholarship Applications

09.04.08 - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate will accept scholarship applications from Sept. 5, 2008, through Jan. 16, 2009, for the academic year beginning in fall 2009.