Dr. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Executive Board, visited the NASA/DLR SOFIA astronomical observatory aircraft based at Dryden.
Dr. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Executive Board, visited the NASA/DLR SOFIA astronomical observatory aircraft based at Dryden.
The final leg of Space Shuttle Endeavour's cross-country ferry flight was completed Dec. 12, 2008 when it landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Florida's east coast. The Endeavour and its modified ...
After an almost 16-day mission to the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle Endeavour has landed at Edwards Air Force Base in the Southern California high desert. Endeavour descended under cl...
The High-speed Imaging Photometer for Occultation, or HIPO, instrument was installed on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy telescope Nov. 17.
David D. McBride has been appointed deputy director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
NASA is partnering with Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. on a project that could aid visibility for pilots of future supersonic business jets.
If residents of Western Nevada had looked high up in the sky on the morning of Oct. 24, 1968, they might have seen the sun glinting off the fuselage of a silver, eight-engine NB-52A Stratofortress as it made a graceful turn over Smith Ranch Dry Lake.
Conical probes are used for measuring airflow parameters – airspeed, angle of attack and sideslip.
It's been called the most successful of the X-plane flight research programs, but according to noted aerospace author Dennis Jenkins, the decade-long X-15 rocket plane hypersonic research program was not without its pitfalls.
Three astronomers to participate in 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.
Dryden has made many significant contributions to NASA's mission since the agency's inception five decades ago. The 50th anniversary issue of the X-Press profiles 61 employees and 28 current and past projects.
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STS-119 is the 28th shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Discovery will carry the S6 truss segment as well as a new station crew member to the orbital outpost.
Time-lapse video of the Orion Abort Flight Test Demonstrator undergoing weight, balance and center of gravity tests at NASA Dryden.
› View This VideoNASA 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.
Photos of aircraft currently flying at Dryden