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 Mem...
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 Mem...
An experimental light detection and ranging (lidar) device that is able to measure descent velocity for future manned and robotic lunar missions was flight-tested Aug. 20-22 at NASA's Dryden Flight Re...
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center employees Tony Ginn, Scott Wiley and Jonathan Barraclough attended NASA's General Aviation Technology Challenge Aug. 4-10 at the Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa,...
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.
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.
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.
Univ. of Utah student Patricia Oliphant , of Highland, Ca., has always had a fascination with the atmosphere and meteorology.
College student Christopher O'Shea, of North Strabane, credits his father for the excitement he has for aviation.
Over the next year, NASA will celebrate 50 years of scientific and technological excellence.
NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory recently concluded a series of long-duration flights in the Arctic between Scandinavia and Greenland as part of the Arctic Mechanisms of Interaction Between the Surface and Atmosphere (AMISA) mission.
> AMISA Science Report
A flight to upgrade what may be the most significant satellite ever launched -- the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA is developing the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy - or SOFIA - as a world-class airborne observatory that will complement the Hubble, Spitzer, Herschel and James Webb space telescopes and major Earth-based telescopes.
Our new aircraft operations facility in Palmdale offers the expanded space needed to manage Dryden's airborne science missions and research platforms.
Current flight research projects and programs being flown at Dryden Flight Research Center.
A collection of historical facts and events from Dryden's last 50 years.
Newsletter devoted to the research conducted at DFRC and the people who make it happen.
Photos of aircraft current flying at Dryden