Features

2005 - 2008

 Outreach specialist Darlene Mendoza from NASA Ames Research Center outlined some of the space science missions envisioned for NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
Enthusiastic Fifth-graders Learn About NASA Aeronautics, Science
How cool is NASA when students in two fifth grade classes forgo recess to ask more questions? For students in two Cielo Azul Elementary School classes in Rio Rancho, N.M., their studies Oct. 7 included some lessons on NASA aeronautics, science and astronomy.
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 The breakup and fragmentation of the European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle.
Re-entry Breakup of Jules Verne ATV-1
The breakup and fragmentation of the European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle was captured in dramatic fashion by scientists aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory and a Gulfstream V aircraft as it re-entered the atmosphere early Monday morning over the South Pacific.
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NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory
ATV Re-entry Imagery
ATV Re-entry Video
 
 NASA structures and operations engineers explain their jobs at NASA Dryden to high school students attending the annual Salute to Youth career day.
NASA Dryden Supports Salute to Youth Career Day
Antelope Valley-area high school students learned of career opportunities at NASA and scores of other potential employers.
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 NASA's Autonomous Modular Scanner on the Ikhana aircraft captured this thermal-infrared imagery.
NASA's Ikhana UAS resumes Western States Fire Mission flights
NASA's Ikhana UAS resumes Western States Fire Mission flights
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 Mirror for NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is unloaded from Air Force C-17 transport plane.
Newly Coated Mirror Assembly Returns
The newly coated telescope mirror assembly for SOFIA is unloaded from a C-17 aircraft at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility prior to re-installation.
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 A TV reporter interviews NASA test pilot Bill Dana, wearing his infamous pink boots with yellow daisy decals, after the last powered flight of the X-24B.
The Last Rocketeer: Pink Boots and Yellow Daisies
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.
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 David McBride presents the 2008 Dryden Employee Exchange Council scholarship check to Jill Pestana, as her parents look on.
Tehachapi High Grad Awarded NASA Dryden Scholarship
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.
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 A sophisticated lidar device is tested from the nose of a helicopter at NASA Dryden.
Lunar Landing Hazard Velocity LIDAR Device Tested at NASA Dryden
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 Research Center...Read more on ALHAT
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 Pilot Will Whiteside joins NASA Dryden's Tony Ginn prior to the CAFE race
NASA Dryden Team Supports Technology Challenge
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, Calif.
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 M2-F1 in flight over lakebed on tow line
The M2-F1: An Unlikely Forerunner to the Space Shuttle
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.
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 NASA intern Brian Armstrong
Lancaster High Grad Brian Armstrong Interning at NASA Dryden
NASA intern Brian Armstrong has always been interested in aviation, thanks to the influence of his aerospace engineer father.
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 Retired NASA research pilots Tom McMurtry, Bill Dana and Rogers Smith reminisce during the Lancaster Jethawks baseball team's Aerospace Appreciation Night.
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.
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 NASA's Global Hawk unmanned science aircraft.
NASA Awards Global Hawk Support Contract to Northrop Grumman
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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 Summer intern Patricia Oliphant
Local College Student is Summer Intern at NASA Field Center
Univ. of Utah student Patricia Oliphant , of Highland, Ca., has always had a fascination with the atmosphere and meteorology.
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 Christopher O'Shea sits in the cockpit of a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
Local College Student is Summer Intern at NASA Field Center
College student Christopher O'Shea, of North Strabane, credits his father for the excitement he has for aviation.
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 INSPIRE intern William Scott
Summer at NASA Dryden 'INSPIRES' San Diego Student
William Scott, a 2008 graduate of San Diego's Clairemont High School, exchanged what could have been a relaxing summer vacation for the challenge of fitting into the workforce at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base.
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 Crew removing the crate from the Forward Bay Cover for the Orion mockup crew module at Dryden Flight Research Center.
Orion Flight Test Parts Continue Arriving at NASA Dryden
The Forward Bay Cover for the first abort flight test Orion mockup crew module arrived at Dryden Flight Research Center on July 11.
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 NASA Dryden intern Emily Sayles
Bakersfield Student Emily Sayles Interning at NASA Dryden
Bakersfield resident Emily Sayles had her fire lit about space travel when she was in the fifth grade. That summer, Sayles attended U.S. Space Camp, then based at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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 NASA engineer Tony Ginn shows the space shuttle to EAA AirVenture Museum volunteer Linda Meyers in the NASA 50th anniversary exhibit in the museum.
NASA Engineer Long Time EAAer
Tony Ginn comes from a flying family. He carries on that tradition at work and at home.
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 Darcy Dewar, Will Scott, Teresa Thacker, Kaitlyn Cutler and Ricardo Fuentes (L-R) are among a group of student interns working at NASA Dryden under the INSPIRE program this summer.
Summer at NASA Dryden 'INSPIRES' Student Interns
A number of Antelope Valley students exchanged what could have been a relaxing summer vacation for the challenge of fitting into the workforce at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base.
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 Redlands High School Student Julianna Plumb Interning at NASA Dryden
Redlands High School Student Julianna Plumb Interning at NASA Dryden
Julianna Plumb of Redlands made a huge commitment for the summer. She chose to spend eight weeks away from family and friends in exchange for immersion into the aerospace engineering field as an intern at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base.
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 Ikhana's wing has fiber optic sensors.
NASA Evaluates Fiber Optic Technology for Future Aircraft Efficiency
NASA is evaluating an advanced, fiber optic-based sensing technology that could aid development of active control of an aircraft's wing shape.
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 NASA's Ikhana remotely piloted aircraft soars over smoky terrain during a wildfire imaging demonstration mission.
NASA Responds to California Wildfire Emergency Imaging Request
A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week, gathering information that will be used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning within the state.
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 Technicians at NASA’s Ames Research Center inspect the main mirror for NASA’s new airborne eye on the universe
Main Mirror for SOFIA Infrared Observatory Receives Finish Coating
The main mirror for NASA’s new airborne eye on the universe is now ready for installation after being transformed from a carefully shaped and polished piece of glass into a highly reflective optical component at NASA's Ames Research Center.
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 Aurora Resident Jordan Jensen Interning at NASA Field Center
Aurora Resident Jordan Jensen Interning at NASA Field Center
As a young child, Jordan Jensen's first flight experience in a Cessna 172 led to a lifetime interest in everything associated with aircraft. He could not have foreseen that this early fascination would lead to a position with NASA.
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 SOFIA primary mirror assembly is loaded into a C-17.
SOFIA Primary Mirror Shipped to NASA Ames for Coating
The primary mirror assembly of NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, has been shipped to NASA's Ames Research Center near San Jose, Calif., for its final finish coating.
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 Steven G. Schmidt, deputy director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center
Steven Schmidt Named to Lead Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
Steven G. Schmidt, deputy director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base since 2004, has been appointed director of the center's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif.
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 NASA’s DC-8 airborne laboratory in flight
NASA, Air Resources Board To Examine California Air Quality
NASA and scientists from the California Air Resources Board are conducting a series of research flights this month that are examining the atmosphere over the state to better understand the chemical dynamics of smog and greenhouse gases.
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 Dryden Flight Operations Chief Lawrence Davis
Lawrence Davis Appointed Flight Operations Chief At NASA Dryden
Veteran test pilot, engineer, instructor and system safety manager Lawrence R. Davis has been appointed as Director of Flight Operations at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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 Winners of last year's middle school robotics workshop robot competition display their handiwork.
Middle School Student Robotics Workshop Slated in Palmdale
Local middle school students are invited to participate in a weeklong robotics workshop during the second week in July in Palmdale.
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 Staff Sgt. Brandon Smith instructs trainees on signal mirror technique during survival training.
NASA Dryden, Air Force Flight Crews Undergo Survival Training
When flight crews have to bail out or eject from a crippled aircraft, they need to know how to survive once they hit the ground or water.
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 NASA LLRV in flight, 1967.
LLRV Work led to Apollo Lunar Landers
NASA Flight Research Center's LLRV work led to development of the Apollo Lunar Landers.
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 David Wright
Dryden Management Appointments
Three employees of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center have recently been assigned to top management positions.
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 Painter applies the first primer coat to NASA's Orion full-scale abort flight test crew module.
Orion Arrives at Dryden
Crew module mockup arrives at Dryden for test preparations.
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 NASA Flight operations engineer Kathleen Howell with Ikhana
Kathleen Howell-Mother, Private Pilot and NASA Engineer
NASA flight operations engineer Kathleen Howell was a stay-at-home mom to three children prior to joining NASA.
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 NASA's SOFIA flying observatory was captured in striking relief during nighttime telescope characterization tests in Palmdale, Calif., in March 2008.
SOFIA Telescope Operational Testing Continues
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization testing in early March.
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 Orion crew module mockup heads to a Langley hangar.
Orion Flight Test Crew Module Unveiled at NASA Langley
Mockup will inaugurate the flight-testing phase of the Constellation Program.
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 Dryden Pilot Jim Smolka
NASA Dryden's Smolka, Molzahn Receive Aviation Week Laureate Award
Research pilot James W. Smolka and flight test operations engineer Leslie M. Molzahn of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center were among aerospace professionals honored by Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine at its recent Laureate Awards presentation.
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 NASA Dryden pilot and artist Mark Pestana displays the STS-123 patch he designed.
Launching Art Into Space
Not many artists are privileged to see their work fly in space.
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 Dryden engineer Mark C. Dickerson
NASA Dryden's Mark Dickerson – Giving Back What He Has Been Given
When Dryden engineer Mark C. Dickerson was in junior high school, a teacher took him flying and opened his mind to a new world of possibilities.


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 NASA Dryden engineer and robotics team mentor Dave Voracek with his son Brad during unveiling of Lancaster High School's entry in the FIRST robotics competition.
Dryden-sponsored Prep Robotics Teams Unveil 2008 Robots
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center is sponsoring high school teams in the 2008 "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology" robotics competition.
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 X-48 in flight over California desert
X-48B Demonstrator Completes Eighth Flight in Test Series
Boeing's X-48B Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator successfully completed its eighth flight of its flight test program on Jan. 31, 2008 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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 SOFIA flies over NASA Ames.
SOFIA Visits Ames; Begins Mission Systems Installation
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy made a brief visit to NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field near San Jose on Jan. 14.
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 Brad Flick - Dryden
James Harris - Dryden

Flick, Harris Advanced to Senior Management Roles at NASA Dryden
Two employees at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center have been named to senior management positions at the center. Bradley C. Flick has been appointed the center's Chief Engineer, a senior level position, after serving in an acting capacity since late 2005. James W. Harris has been named as director of Dryden's Test Systems Directorate.
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 Mark Pestana's painting of the X-43A being boosted by a Pegasus rocket and chased by a NASA F/A-18 won first place in the space category of Aviation Week and Space Technology's annual art and photography awards.
Dryden Pilot's Artwork, Photography Featured in Aviation Week
Initial research activities beginning in 2009 will support NASA's Airborne Science Program.NASA research pilot and aerospace artist / photographer Mark Pestana has been recognized by Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine for his award-winning painting, "The Quest for Mach 10," that was published in the magazine's annual photography / art issue in late December.
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 Fire trucks unleash their water cannons in a salute to research pilot Gordon Fullerton.
Gordo's Final Flight
After more than 38 years with NASA, C. Gordon Fullerton had his final flight on Dec. 21, 2007.
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 NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, is shadowed by a NASA F/A-18 mission support aircraft during a recent test flight.
SOFIA Telescope Operation Checkout Continues
Initial flight testing of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, continued during December at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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 In its new white-and-blue NASA livery, an early development model of the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft rests on the ramp at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
NASA Dryden Receives Two Early Global Hawk Aircraft
Initial research activities beginning in 2009 will support NASA's Airborne Science Program.
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Missions and Memories – 2007 at NASA Dryden
In 2007, NASA Dryden supported a number of research projects that contributed to aerospace technology, the agency's space exploration goals and the knowledge and protection of our environment.
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 Actor William Shatner awards NASA
NASA honored at Jules Verne Film Festival
Space Station crew downlinks message.
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 Pilot Ed Lewis in cockpit
Ed Lewis - His Contrail Remains at NASA
Remembered at Dryden as "a contrail that won’t dissipate" .
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 NASA's Gulfstream III research testbed takes off.
NASA Evaluates Compact Synthetic Aperture Radar
Sensor measures small geophysical changes in the Earth's surface.
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 NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, is shadowed by a NASA F/A-18 mission support aircraft during a recent test flight.
SOFIA Completes Initial Flight Test Segment
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has completed the initial segment of the first phase of SOFIA flight testing.
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NASA Selects Dryden Project for IPP Seed Fund Award
NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program recently awarded a "Seed Fund" grant to Tao Systems, of Hampton, Va., for development of a compact aerodynamic sensing system that will help validate aircraft flight performance.
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 Orion crew vehicle launches on board the Ares I launch vehicle.
Groundbreaking Signals Start of NASA's Constellation Flight Tests
With less than a year until flight tests of NASA's Constellation Program, work is under way on a launch pad that will host the first of those tests.
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NASA Dryden Awards Engineering, Technical Services Contract
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a multi-year competitive contract to Tybrin Corporation of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., for engineering and technical services at the NASA field center.
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 NASA's DC-8 banks over the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
NASA's DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory Returns to Dryden
Aircraft to be based at Dryden's new Aircraft Operations Facility
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 NASA research pilot Edwin W. Lewis Jr.
NASA Pilot Edwin Lewis Dies in Crash
Lewis was a research pilot at Dryden Flight Research Center.
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 Former astronaut John Herrington visits with students at Vintage Magnet School
Former Astronaut Visits Southern California Explorer School
John Herrington visits with students at Vintage Magnet School
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 NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale
2007 SpotBeam Civil Space Award
Winner is SOFIA
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 Infrared photo taken by NASA's Ikhana of Harris fire in Southern California.
Wildfire Imaging Flights By NASA's Ikhana UAV
NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft system flew over several of the major Southern California wildfires again Friday, capturing thermal-infrared imagery to aid firefighters battling those blazes.
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 NASA X-48B project manager Gary Cosentino standing beside X-48B Blended Wing Body
Greeting a Living Legend: NASA's Cosentino Meets Childhood Hero Buzz Aldrin
Nine-year-old Gary Cosentino watched the television with awe on July 20, 1969, as two men exited an odd-looking craft called the Eagle lunar module, climbed down a ladder and set foot on the moon.
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 SOFIA takeoff from Edwards AFB
SOFIA Airborne Observatory Begins Flight Test Phase
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy has begun a series of flight tests to confirm the structural integrity and performance of the 747SP aircraft.
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 NASA engineer Gina Branco in front of Dryden aircraft
NASA's Hispanic Heritage
Despite personal tragedies, NASA engineer pursued her dreams.
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 Neil Armstrong, described the unorthodox training vehicle that taught him how to land on the lunar surface.
Neil Armstrong Shows How to Land on the Moon
The problem: land an aerospace vehicle before you take off in it, and do it the first time ever on an unimproved field no human has ever visited. That's what Neil Armstrong faced when he guided Eagle to the moon's surface in July 1969.
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 NASA Pilot Sanley Buchart
Former NASA Dryden Research Pilot Stanley P. Butchart Dies
Retired NASA Dryden Flight Research Center research pilot Stanley P. Butchart died Monday in Lancaster at the age of 85.
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 Lauren K. Abraham, a June graduate of Tehachapi High School, has been awarded the NASA Dryden Exchange Council’s 2007 John K. Russell Memorial Scholarship.
Lauren Abraham Awarded NASA Dryden Exchange Council Scholarship
Lauren K. Abraham, a June graduate of Tehachapi High School, has been awarded the NASA Dryden Exchange Council's 2007 John K. Russell Memorial Scholarship.
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 Illustration of Orion Launch Abort System
NASA Awards Orion Launch Abort Test Facilities Contract
NASA's White Sands Test Facility has selected Denco, Inc. of Las Cruces, N.M., to build launch site facilities for flight testing of the Orion Launch Abort System.
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 Ikhana unmanned aircraft with its sensor pod under its wing.
WSFM Status Report
NASA's Ikhana UAV Conducts Fourth Western States Fire Mission Flight
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 NASA Dryden represented at Salute to Youth career fair
NASA Dryden Represented at Salute to Youth Career Fair
NASA Dryden engineer Leslie Molzahn autographs photos for Antelope Valley-area high school students during the annual Salute to Youth in Palmdale, Calif.
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 Former test pilot Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager
First person to fly an aircraft faster than the speed of sound brought his recollections to an appreciative NASA audience.
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 DC-10 tanker dropping fire retardant
Dryden News Photos
Promotional high resolution photos associated with news releases and features that are temporarily available for downloading.
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 X-48B in flight
Skyray 48 Takes Flight
Remotely piloted plane to demonstrate blended wing shape.
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 NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center will establish an aircraft operations facility in this large hangar adjacent to USAF Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif.
NASA Dryden to Establish Aircraft Operations at Palmdale Site
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has received approval to establish an Aircraft Operations Facility at the former Rockwell International / North American Aircraft production facility in Palmdale.
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 An astronaut glove prototype gets a tryout by STS-118 astronauts.
NASA 'Wired' at NextFest
NASA proved to be 'wired' at this year's NextFest, WIRED Magazine's new-technology festival.
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Wildfire Imaging Missions Continue on NASA's Ikhana UAV
The third in a series of wildfire imaging demonstration flights by the Ikhana unmanned aircraft.
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 Bill Dana in front of the hypersonic X-15
Bill Dana - Rocket Pilot
X-15 test pilot William H. "Bill" Dana kept the rocket plane on track as it crested at an altitude of 59 miles.
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NASA's California Centers Participating in NextFest This Weekend
NASA's three field centers in California will be showcasing some of their current and future technologies at WIRED magazine's NextFest this weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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NASA Dryden Awards Engineering, Technical Agreements
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently awarded Blanket Purchase Agreements to four firms for engineering and technical support services at the NASA field center.
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NASA Dryden Offers STS-118 Educational Seminar In Palmdale
Local educators are invited to participate in space shuttle mission STS-118 through a summer seminar sponsored by the education office of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. The second of two sessions is scheduled for Saturday, August 25, at the NASA Dryden Education Center in Palmdale.
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 NASA astronaut Suni Williams detailed her launch on the space shuttle for a group of young admirers during her appearance at the NASA exhibit at the X-Games in suburban Los Angeles Aug. 4.
Astronaut Suni Williams a hit at X-Games
NASA astronaut Suni Williams speaks during an appearance at the NASA exhibit at the X-Games in suburban Los Angeles.
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 F-15 in flight
Ejection Seats Explored at NASA’s Palmdale Gallery
When pilots flying high performance jets need to get out of a crippled aircraft in a hurry, they count on rocket-powered ejection seats.
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 X-48 over california desert during its first flight
X-48B Blended Wing Body Research Aircraft Makes First Flight
Collaborative efforts culminated on the first flight of the X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft on July 20, 2007.
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 Larry Huebner of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center stands next to the Ares I model at Oshkosh.
Larry Huebner Could Help you go to the Moon
It's reasonable to believe the sea of aerospace-savvy faces at AirVenture includes visitors who will one day set foot on the moon. And NASA's Larry Huebner is here to help.
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 Getting the dirt on exploration, Kyle Wallace of Evansville, Indiana, feels the difference between a soil sample from earth and a replicated batch of moon dust in the NASA exhibit at AirVenture.
From Jamestown to Mars, it Takes Explorers with Imagination
Four centuries ago, pioneers from England were humbled by the elements as they struggled to maintain a community at Jamestown on Chesapeake Bay.
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 Nose cones of various shapes, sizes and colors are displayed at the EAA Museum exhibit.
NASA EAA Museum Exhibit Celebrates the Art of Flying with Technology
Sawtooth helicopter blades that muffle the "whop! whop!" and elegant wind tunnel models that are a fusion of sculpture and engineering set the tone for an exhibit of NASA aerodynamic shapes in the EAA Museum during AirVenture 2007.
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 F/A-18 in flight
Sonic Boom Tests
Tests will examine the structural response of modern housing construction to sonic booms.
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Airborne Astronomy in View at NASA's Palmdale Gallery
The world's newest flying telescope will be in focus on Saturday, June 30, at NASA's Aerospace Exploration Gallery in the Palmdale Civic Center.
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 SOFIA 747 in flight
The SOFIA Airborne Laboratory
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA made its first checkout flight recently.
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 NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) lands at Edwards AFB.
SOFIA Airborne Observatory Arrives at NASA Dryden
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, has arrived at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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 Students had the opportunity to see cutting-edge flight research projects and facilities at Dryden.
Grace Lutheran School Students Tour NASA Dryden
Students in Lancaster recently had the opportunity to see first-hand the cutting-edge flight research projects and facilities at NASA Dryden.
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 The Skylab 4 command module upside down following
Upside-Down Astronauts
A little-known fact of the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions is that, upon splashdown, the space capsules rolled upside down in the ocean during about half of the landings.
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 Jeanette Le, Branch chief, simulation engineering NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
NASA Dryden's Jeanette Le: From war-torn Vietnam to a career at NASA
From a childhood in war-torn Vietnam to a career at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California, Jeanette Le has had a challenging yet rewarding life, to say the least.
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NASA Rededicates Flying Observatory on Lindbergh Anniversary
NASA dedicated a unique astronomy aircraft Monday to pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh on the 80th anniversary of his historic transatlantic flight.
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 Evacuation training during shuttle exercise.
Space Shuttle Contingency Training Exercise
A training exercise was conducted for rescue of a space shuttle crew in the unlikely event of a landing mishap at Edwards AFB.
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 SOFIA 747SP in flight
SOFIA Astronomy Jet Makes First Flight
International astronomers are a major step closer to unlocking secrets of the cosmos.
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Facilities Maintenance Pact Awarded
Dryden has awarded a sole-source contract to Pride Industries of Roseville, Calif., for a wide range of facilities support and maintenance operations.
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 Webpage for Flight Test Safety Database
NASA, FAA Develop Flight Test Safety Database
Web-based, one-stop reference guide for aviation test-flying community.
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 Orion crew vehicle launches on board the Ares I launch vehicle.
NASA Buys Abort Test Boosters for Orion Flight Tests
Agency enters into agreement with the U.S. Air Force to support Orion.
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 HL-10 lifting body turns toward lakebed runway.
'Flying without Wings' in Focus at NASA'S Palmdale Gallery
Wen Painter, former lifting body project engineer, will discuss the famous wingless lifting bodies at the NASA Aerospace Exploration Gallery.
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 NF-15B in Benefield Anechoic Facility at Edwards AFB
NASA Dryden Awards Engineering & Tech Support Pact to Boeing
Specialized research aircraft contract could be worth up to $28 million.
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'Rocket Boy' to NASA Engineer
Homer Hickam shares his memoir.
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 Ikhana unmanned aircraft
Ikhana UAV Gives NASA New Science and Technology Capabilities
The inventory of research aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has grown by one with the acquisition of a Predator B unmanned aircraft system.
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 New pilots
Two Test Pilots Join NASA Dryden's Flight Operations Staff
Two new research test pilots, Kelly Latimer and Nils Larson, have joined the Flight Crew Branch at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base.
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Two NASA Dryden Small Business Tech Transfer Projects Funded
Two proposals submitted by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are among 18 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) advanced concept flight research proposals selected by NASA for Phase 2 contract negotiations.
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Astronaut Vance Brand To Speak At NASA's Palmdale Gallery
Former Apollo-Soyuz and space shuttle astronaut Vance Brand will discuss his space travels the afternoon of Saturday, April 21, at the NASA Aerospace Exploration Gallery in the Palmdale Civic Center.
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 NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis image
Airborne Science in the Classroom
NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (NAMMA) probes an easterly atmospheric wave off the African continent.
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 Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) 747SP jetliner
NASA Awards SOFIA Development, Engineering Pact to L-3 Communications
Dryden has awarded a contract to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P. for continued developmental and engineering work on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
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 An inert AIM-54 Phoenix missile nestled under the fuselage of NASA Dryden's F-15B aircraft is being studied as a possible test vehicle to obtain hypersonic data.
Phoenix Missile Hypersonic Testbed
Researchers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, Calif., are investigating the use of surplus demilitarized Navy AIM-54 Phoenix air-launched missiles as possible hypersonic test platforms or testbeds.
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 NASA Dryden director Kevin L. Petersen discusses the center's major milestones during its 60th anniversary year.
2006 – A Year of Challenge and Accomplishment at NASA Dryden
A year of challenge, a year of transition, a year of accomplishment – that was 2006 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base.
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 A girl in a green jacket and a woman standing next to her look down at a collage they are holding
Learning NASA History Pays Off For Students
Would you like to win a NASA flight jacket? That was the question posed to students across the United States by the education office at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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 infrared mapping image taken from Altair
NASA Provides Rapid Response to State Emergency Service Request
When the Esperanza fire in Southern California ignited on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006, the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the Esperanza Fire Incident Command Center requested NASA's imaging and fire mapping assistance to support the team of fire fighters battling the rapidly-growing wildfire.
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NASA Dryden Awards Consulting Engineering Contracts
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded contracts to five companies for professional engineering and management services to aid the center in acquiring world-class flight research, test and operational-oriented projects.
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 Altair in flight.
NASA Supports UAS Fire Mapping Efforts on California Fire
A team led by NASA and U.S. Forest Service scientists recently collected real-time, visible and infrared data from sensors onboard a remotely piloted aircraft over the Esperanza Fire in Southern California.
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Five High-Tech Firms Receive SBIR Contracts From NASA Dryden
Five small high-technology firms have been selected by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center for research and development contracts under Phase II of NASA's Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program.
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 NASA Dryden life support technician Jim Sokolik assists pressure-suited pilot Dee Porter into the cockpit of NASA's ER-2 Earth resources aircraft.
NASA Dryden's Jim Sokolik Reaches Unique ER-2 Milestone
Jim Sokolik recently became the man who launched 1,000 ships.

Well, not exactly sea-going ships. Sokolik reached his personal milestone by launching his 1,000th mission when one of the two ER-2 aircraft that NASA Dryden Flight Research Center operates for NASA's high-altitude science program took to the sky in mid-September.
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Gulfstream, NASA Dryden Joust with Supersonic Shockwaves
Gulfstream Aerospace and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center have teamed in a project called Quiet SpikeTM to investigate the suppression of sonic booms.
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 Students designed and built this fuel cell-powered, remotely piloted airplane.
Fuel-Cell Flier
California students among the first to fly a fuel cell-powered aircraft.
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 X-2 rocket plane accelerates in a dive.
50th Anniversary of the X-2
Two aerospace milestones that involved both triumph and tragedy.
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 Hands-off during the first-ever fully autonomous air refueling demonstration.
DARPA, NASA Dryden Joint Effort
First Hands-Off Autonomous Aerial Refueling
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 Dryden 60th Anniversary Logo
NASA Dryden Sponsors Student Historical Essay Competition
Would you like to win a NASA flight jacket? That is one of the prizes in a national history competition for students in grades five through 12 sponsored by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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 Crew Exploration Vehicle
NASA Names Orion Contractor
Orion is the central member of a family of spacecraft and shuttle-derived launchers that will go to the moon and Mars.
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 Former astronaut John Herrington presents students at Sanders Middle School, with an Explorer School flag.
Native American Students Excited By NASA Astronaut Visit
"When I was eight years old, I sat in a cardboard refrigerator box and dreamed of going to the moon".
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SR-71 Blackbird Simulator Leaves NASA Dryden for New Home
One of the last vestiges of the SR-71 high-speed flight project at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center was hauled away on a flatbed truck in early July.
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NASA'S Vision For Space Exploration Exhibit
Visitors to this year's Antelope Valley Fair in Lancaster can take a journey into a virtual reality solar system.
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 Structural Fabrication Branch Chief Ed Swan
Composite Creations
NASA Dryden develops new fabrication capability
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 A space shuttle main engine is hoisted into position.
At NASA Exhibit, What Goes Up Must... Well... Go Up
It takes a lot of crane to lift a three-and-a-half-ton space shuttle main engine up from its trailer.
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 ER-2 takeoff
ER-2 Aloft Again
One of NASA's two high-flying ER-2 Earth resources aircraft, took to the skies recently from NASA's Dryden on its first science mission in over two years.
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 Jeffrey Bauer, aerospace engineer and project manager at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center
NASA Dryden Manager Honored
Jeffrey E. Bauer, an aerospace engineer and project manager at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, was honored recently by Unmanned Vehicle Systems International with its 2006 Catherine Fargeon Award.
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 X-48B Blended Wing Body
NASA Begins Blended Wing-Body Wind Tunnel Tests
Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., are testing a 21-foot wingspan 8.5 percent scale prototype of a blended wing body aircraft in Langley's historic full-scale wind tunnel.
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 Student robotics competition
Middle School Students Demo Robots on July 1
Six teams of Antelope Valley middle school students will maneuver robots on July 1 in Palmdale.
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NASA Announces Dryden Support Services Contract
NASA has selected Kay and Associates, Inc., to provide aerospace ground equipment support services for the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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 Former NASA Dryden Flight Research Center pilot and engineer Bruce A. Peterson died May 1 in Laguna Niguel following a lengthy illness. He was 72.
Former NASA Dryden Research Pilot Bruce Peterson Dies
Former NASA Dryden Flight Research Center pilot and engineer Bruce A. Peterson died May 1 in Laguna Niguel following a lengthy illness. He was 72.
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 Scott Crossfield
Scott Crossfield: 1921-2006
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+ Administrator's Statement
 
 SBA PRIME CONTRACTOR OF YEAR – (from left) NASA Dryden small business specialist Robert Medina, AS&M president Jalaiah Unnam, Dryden center director Kevin Petersen, AS&M CEO Vijaya Unnam, and AS&M Dryden site manager Laguduva Kubendran.
NASA Dryden Contractors Win Top SBA Awards
Two contractors at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base are among more than 100 American small businesses honored in April by the U.S. Small Business Administration, one of them as National Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year.
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 HL-10 pilots Jerauld Gentry, Peter Hoag, John Manke and Bill Dana
NASA Dryden: 60 Years of Pushing the Envelope
Celebrating 60 years of flight research at NASA Dryden
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 Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin (left) receives lunar rock sample from Dryden director Kevin Petersen during the Ambassador of Exploration Award ceremony March 25 in Los Angeles.
Aldrin Named Ambassador of Exploration
Former astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was honored with NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award Saturday evening at the California Science Center in Los Angeles
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First Space Shuttle Landing to be Recalled at Media Briefing
NASA retirees and others who played a major role in the first space shuttle landing at Edwards Air Force Base 25 years ago will gather on Monday, April 10
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 A student has a question for an International Space Station crew member.
California Students See the Door to Outer Space
California students gathered for a special live conversation with the space station's Expedition 12 crew.
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 Kevin Kochersberger, the only pilot to successfully fly an exact replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer.
The Wright Experience Revisited
Kevin Kochersberger, the pilot who flew an exact replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer built for the Centennial of Flight observances in 2003, outlined his recollections of the four-year project during a presentation March 8 at NASA Dryden.
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 Lori Losey receives safety award from NASA Administrator Michael Griffin.
Two Dryden Employees Win Top NASA Safety Awards
Two employees of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base have been honored with the agency's Quality and Safety Achievement Recognition award for contributing to the awareness and leadership of safety efforts at Dryden.
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 Engineering simulation behind a metal wind tunnel model of the space shuttle.
NASA Shares Aerospace Interests with Industry Leaders.
Aeronautical research capabilities are highlighted.
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 Astronaut John Phillips stands on stage as he describes the projected image of nine astronauts on the space station on the screen next to him
Phoenix School Celebrates Explorer Status With Astronaut Visit
Students learn about perseverance and life in space.
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 Dryden engineer Bob Curry and Cole Middle School teacher Dorothy Smith preparing for a Zero G experiment
Local Teachers Fly Experiment On NASA's 'Weightless Wonder'
Two science teachers from Gifford C. Cole Middle School in east Lancaster are taking their experiments out of the classroom and into NASA's "Weightless Wonder," a flying microgravity laboratory.
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 Portrait of Vance Brand
NASA Dryden's Vance Brand Honored As Ambassador Of Exploration
Former NASA astronaut Vance Brand is being honored by the nation's aerospace agency as an Ambassador of Exploration for his involvement in the Apollo space program in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Dryden Videographer Lori Losey Wins Aviation Week Photo Award
Videographer Lori Losey has captured some spectacular video footage during her 17 years documenting flight research for NASA at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
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2005 - A Year Of Challenges, Accomplishments, Honors At NASA Dryden
The safe landing of the space shuttle Discovery and the presentation of astronaut wings to three civilian research pilots who flew the X-15 rocket plane highlighted a year of challenge and accomplishment at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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 Project manager/aerospace engineer, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
NASA Dryden Engineer Honored by Mexican-American Engineering Group
An aerospace engineer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has been named the recipient of the National Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES) top award for 2005.
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 Altair flies over the California coast.
Altair UAV Flies Lengthy Science Missions For NOAA
The NOAA and NASA concluded a joint series of environmental science demonstration flights with the Altair UAV in mid-November.
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 Engineer Larry Hudson (left) outlined thermal tests performed on a reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) structural article to Scott Horowitz (right).
Associate Administrator Briefed at Dryden
Scott Horowitz of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate was briefed on NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's capabilities to support the agency's space exploration goals
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Author James Hansen Outlines Early Career Of Neil Armstrong At Dryden
Historian James Hansen, author of the recently published biography of Neil Armstrong "First Man," outlined highlights of Armstrong's seven years as a research pilot and engineer.
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 A portable F-16 flight simulator from Dryden was a big hit at the Aerospace Testing Expo 2005.
NASA Touts Its Research Tools At Long Beach Aerospace Testing Expo
Supersonic research aircraft and legendary wind tunnels are the exotic tools being promoted by NASA engineers and pilots at Aerospace Testing Expo 2005
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X-43A Hypersonic Program Wins NASA's Top Administrator's Award
NASA's Turning Goals into Reality program has recognized the Hyper-X Program Team with its highest aeronautical honor, the Administrators Award.
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 NASA model motorized sailplane catches a thermal
Catching Heat Waves
Thermals might assist UAVs.
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+ Read Full News Release 05-63
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+ View Video (4.4 Mb QT)
 
 M2-F2 lifting body aircraft after crash.
Dreams of Jeannie: NASA on Classic TV
NASA on Classic TV
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 Astronaut Neil Armstrong speech at Experimental Test Pilots conference
Neil Armstrong Recalls Test Pilot Days
Astronaut Armstrong recalls the organization's origins.
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 Former NASA Pilot Ed Schneider Inducted Into Aerospace Walk Of Honor
Former NASA Pilot Ed Schneider Inducted Into Aerospace Walk Of Honor
The City of Lancaster, Calif., inducted former NASA research pilot Edward T. Schneider into its Aerospace Walk of Honor Sept. 24.
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 Dryden pilot Ed Schneider celebrates his last flight.
'Fast Eddie' Joins Pilots Walk of Honor
NASA Pilot Joins Walk of Honor
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Cal Poly Students Participate in NASA Flight Research Test
Aerospace engineering students spent a recent Saturday on a lake -- not sailing but helping NASA study aircraft takeoff and landing noise.
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 Pathfinder Plus taking off at Dryden
Pathfinder Plus Solar Aircraft Completes Turbulence Tests At Dryden
The Pathfinder-Plus solar-electric flying wing recently completed a short series of research flights from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to investigate the effects of turbulence on lightweight flexible wing structures
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 Pilot Wyatt Sadler controls Pathfinder-Plus from the ground station.
Forecasting for Flight
When NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and AeroVironment, Inc. flew the company's Pathfinder-Plus solar-electric aircraft recently, the weather mattered; it mattered a lot.
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 X-15 pilot Bill Dana
X-15 Space Pioneers Now Honored as Astronauts
In a turbulent era of 1960s Cold War confrontations, moon race headlines, and war in southeast Asia, eight military and civilian test pilots flew the radical X-15 rocket plane out of the atmosphere and into the record books, earning astronaut status.
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 Fine artist and NASA graphic artist Dennis Calaba
Paintbrush and Mouse
NASA Artists a Study in Contrasts
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 Shuttle Discover atop NASA's 747 in flight
Space Shuttle Update - August 22
The Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery arrived back at the Kennedy Space Center after a three-day cross-country ferry flight from Edwards Air Force Base.
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Brand Honored At Jethawks' Aerospace Appreciation Night
Former Apollo-Soyuz and Space Shuttle astronaut Vance Brand was honored this past weekend by the Lancaster Jethawks Class A California League baseball team during its annual Aerospace Appreciation Night.
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NASA's two F-15 research aircraft
NASA's two F-15 research aircraft don't get a lot of flight hours, and it's even less frequent that they are in the air together on the same mission.
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Space Shuttle launch viewed live at AirVenture
Visitors and NASA employees cheer Discovery launch.
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 The NASA ER-2 flew over Hurricane Dennis as part of the Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TSCP) mission.
NASA'S ER-2 Flies Over Hurricane Emily's Eye
As Hurricane Emily lashes the coast of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, a high-flying NASA ER-2 earth sciences aircraft from the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., flew high over the storm as it moved across the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Mexico.
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 Northrop Grumman conceptual designs of quiet supersonic aircraft. NGC image.
NASA Funds Exploratory Studies For Quieting Sonic Boom
NASA and several industry teams are studying how to design and build an aircraft that could demonstrate technology to lessen the noise and window-rattling effects of supersonic flight.
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 Public Meeting On NASA Dryden TCE Cleanup Plan Scheduled
Local Elementary Teachers At NASA Dryden For Math/Science Workshop
Fifty teachers will spend a day this week exploring the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., as part of a larger educational program funded through the California Department of Education.
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 Discovery landing at Edwards with chute deployed
Dryden to Host Media Briefing, Tour on Shuttle Preparations July 6.
NASA's Return-to-Flight Space Shuttle mission, designated STS-114, is tentatively set for mid-July. The shuttle orbiter Discovery will be launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is scheduled to land there about 12 days later.
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 Aerospace engineer Kevin Walsh in front of Dryden's X-1E.
NASA Dryden's Kevin Walsh withdraws from Race Across America
NASA Dryden aerospace engineer Kevin Walsh withdrew from the Race Across America cross-country bicycle race Thursday due to respiratory difficulties and exhaustion.
+ Daily Progress Updates
+ Dryden employees support Walsh's RAAM effort
 
 Public Meeting On NASA Dryden TCE Cleanup Plan Scheduled
Teachers Attend NASA 'Explorer School' Math/Science Workshop
Sixteen teachers from 10 states are participating this week in a workshop at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards designed to aid educators in incorporating NASA-based material into their science and math curriculum.
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NASA Spacecraft Measures Unusual 2005 Arctic Ozone Conditions
NASA's Aura spacecraft showed that other atmospheric processes restored ozone amounts to near average and stopped high levels of harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching Earth's surface.
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 Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, was briefed by X-43A engineer Laurie Grindle during a tour of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center June 2.
Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chairman Visits NASA Dryden
Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, was briefed by X-43A engineer Laurie Grindle during a tour of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center June 2.
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 Gwen Young
NASA Dryden's Gwen Young: Diversity is Her Strength
Gwen's Young's life has been anything but ordinary since she joined NASA as a Presidential Management Intern at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. some 22 years ago.
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 Trong Bui, NASA Dryden's principal investigator for the aerospike rocket tests, with one of two rockets flown in the first tests.
NASA Dryden's Trong Bui Selected for NAFP Fellowship
Trong Bui, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, will have the opportunity to share some of the most current NASA engineering technology at two regional universities following his selection as a 2005 NASA Administrator's Fellowship Program (NAFP) Fellow.
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 Discovery landing at Edwards with chute deployed
Media Credential Deadlines for Space Shuttle Mission STS-114 Extended
Following the postponement of the Space Shuttle Return-to-Flight Mission STS-114 from May to July, NASA is extending the deadline for news media organizations to seek credentials for on-site coverage of the event at the Kennedy and Johnson Space Centers and Dryden Flight Research Center.
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 Public Meeting On NASA Dryden TCE Cleanup Plan Scheduled
Menlo Park Technology Firm Awarded NASA Research Grant
A Menlo Park high-technology firm has won a NASA research grant under the aerospace agency's Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) program that could improve the efficiency of computer flight simulation for a wide variety of aircraft.
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 Remotely piloted Altair UAV in flight
NASA and NOAA join in UAV flight demonstration
NASA's pioneering work with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could boost the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's quest for life-saving atmospheric and environmental information.
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 Public Meeting On NASA Dryden TCE Cleanup Plan Scheduled
Harford Technology Firm Receives NASA Research Grant
A high-technology firm in Harford, N.Y., has won a NASA research grant under the aerospace agency's Small Business Technology Transfer
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 NASA's Super Guppy dwarfs its flight crew.
Guppy Gear
NASA's Super Guppy gets a new landing gear.
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 Aerospace engineer Trong Bui explains the dynamics of flight to students.
Students Intrigued by NASA Career Possibilities.
NASA Explorer School students encouraged by opportunities.
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Dryden's Lori Losey Named NASA Videographer Of Year
A videographer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has won the aerospace agency's highest award for videography for 2004.
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Space Shuttle Landing Training Exercise
Personnel from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and Edwards Air Force Base conducted a training exercise this past weekend that would enable them to effectively handle the rescue of a Space Shuttle crew in the unlikely event of a landing mishap at the base.
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 The remotely-piloted Altair unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) taking to the air on its first checkout flight.
NOAA and NASA Begin California UAV Flight Experiment
Can unmanned aircraft be used effectively for Earth Science experiments? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in cooperation with NASA and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI), are seeking to answer that question during a series of atmospheric and oceanic research flights off the California coastline this spring.
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 Public Meeting On NASA Dryden TCE Cleanup Plan Scheduled
Public Meeting On NASA Dryden TCE Cleanup Plan Scheduled
A proposed plan to clean up potentially hazardous chemical contamination at three groundwater sites at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base will be outlined a public meeting in California City April 27.
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 NASA Dryden pilot and astronaut Gordon Fullerton.
Gordon Fullerton Inducted into Astronaut Hall of Fame
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 NASA Administrator Michael Griffin
Michael Griffin Takes Helm as NASA Administrator
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+ Biography
+ News Release 05-096
+ Senate Testimony (PDF)
 
 Pegasus booster rocket ignites
NASA Dryden's X-43 Team Represented At Aviation Week's Laurel Awards
Two members of the X-43 flight research project team from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center were on hand Tuesday evening, April 5, when the X-43 / Hyper-X project team and several of its major players were honored by Aviation Week and Space Technology.
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 The 'runner' for the Mojave High School Robotics team sprints back for another plastic gamepiece.
Robots' work extends beyond physical tasks in Las Vegas.
Student teams compete.
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 AFFTC commander Gen. Curtis Bedke experienced a Shuttle approach and landing in NASA's Shuttle Training Aircraft from STS-114 commander Col. Eileen Collins.
Command Performance
Brig. Gen. Curtis Bedke, commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, received some first-hand insight this week on how to fly a Space Shuttle approach and landing
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 Space Shuttle Endeavour flares for landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California to conclude STS-100
NASA Credentialing Media for Possible Shuttle Landing at Edwards AFB
The Space Shuttle Discovery is targeted for launch from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on the Return-to-Flight mission STS-114 during a window between May 15 and June 3. Discovery is scheduled to land at KSC at the conclusion of the mission about 11 days later. However, if the weather or other conditions prevent a landing in Florida, the shuttle could be diverted to the primary back-up landing site at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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 Robert Dale Reed, aerospace engineer, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. NASA Photo: EC98-44606-1.
Noted NASA Aeronautics Researcher Dale Reed Dies
Robert Dale Reed, a distinguished NASA aeronautics researcher who pioneered Lifting Body and remotely piloted research aircraft programs at the Dryden Flight Research Center in the 1960s and 70s has died.
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 APV-3 aircraft flown in the joint Ames-Dryden Experiment flares
New Flight Software Allows UAVs To Team Up For Virtual Fire Experiment
The old saying, "birds of a feather, flock together," can now be applied to a couple of small uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) flown in a NASA research experiment using principles derived from studies of fish and bird motions to simultaneously guide them around obstacles.
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 NASA's Active Aeroelastic Wing F/A-18 resumed flight tests in the second phase of the program at the Dryden Flight Research Center in early December 2004.
NASA Flight Tests Validate Active Aeroelastic Wing Design Concept
A flight research project that put a 21st century twist on a century-old technology -- a high-tech derivative of the Wright brothers' wing-warping method of controlling an aircraft's turning ability -- can be summed up in two words: "It works!"
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 Laurie Marshall, aerospace engineer, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. NASA Photo: EC05-0053-1.
NASA Dryden Engineer Wins Prestigious Engineering Award
The National Society of Black Engineers will honor NASA aeronautical engineer Laurie Marshall with the 2005 Golden Torch Award for Outstanding Woman in Technology of the Year.
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 U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye
Navy E-2C Hawkeye Undergoes Major Loads Tests at NASA Dryden
A U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye, a carrier-based electronics aircraft that serves as the eyes and ears of carrier battle groups, recently underwent structural loads tests at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Flight Loads Laboratory to determine if increasing the aircraft's gross weight will affect its performance.
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 NACA and NASA logos
NASA Celebrates 90 Years Of Aeronautics Excellence
On March 3, NASA marked the 90th anniversary of its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and the achievements of nearly a century of work in NASA's keystone discipline, aeronautics.
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 All six divots of thermal insulation foam have been ejected from the flight test fixture on NASA's F-15B testbed.
Space Shuttle Return To Flight Gets A "LIFT" From NASA Dryden F-15B
To help the Space Shuttle safely return to flight, NASA engineers are acquiring data on how insulating foam debris or "divots" behave when these small pieces are shed from the Shuttle's external fuel tank during launch.
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 Pilot Gordon Fullerton taxies NASA Dryden's
T-38 Supersonic Trainer Jet Gets New Home
A sleek, supersonic T-38 trainer jet is taxied into the parking ramp at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center by Dryden's chief pilot Gordon Fullerton.
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 NASA's Airborne Science Dc-8, displaying new colors in a check flight Feb. 34, 2004 over the Dryden Flight Research Center.
International Science Team Measures Arctic's Atmosphere
An international team of scientists aboard NASA's DC-8 Flying Laboratory recently completed a three-week mission to improve modeling of global scale air quality and climate change predictions. The Polar Aura Validation Experiment (PAVE) took high quality measurements of the arctic region's atmosphere and gathered information to validate data from NASA's Aura satellite.
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 F-104 Starfighter in flight
NASA's Starfighters
With a name like Starfighter, F-104s were destined to serve NASA in the extreme regime of high-speed flight research.
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 Scott Bartel of Blacksky Corp. and Trong Bui, principal investigator for the aerospace rocket experiment at NASA Dryden, install the rocket data acquisition system into the first of two solid-fueled aerospike research rockets flown in March 2004.
Vietnamese Immigrant's Dreams Find Reality As A NASA Aerospace Engineer
Conducting mock dogfights with neighborhood friends on bicycles as the children pretended they were flying jet fighters was one of Trong Bui's memories from his childhood in Vietnam.
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 The 5 KW, state-of-the-art solar demonstration site at NASA Dryden is validating earthly use of solar cells developed for NASA's Helios solar-electric aircraft.
Solar Array Demonstrates Commercial Potential at NASA Dryden
A state-of-the-art solar array is providing a unique opportunity to demonstrate the latest in high-efficiency solar cells available for terrestrial use at a demonstration site at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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 Edwards Middle School teachers (clockwise from lower left) Terri Hyatte, Jennie Sparks, Barry Conforti, Chris Richards and Jay Blank examine a high-altitude pressure suit during their tour of NASA Dryden.
NASA Explorer School Teachers Visit Dryden Flight Research Center
Teachers from Edwards Middle School, a NASA Explorer School at Edwards Air Force Base, recently toured NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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 NASA's Airborne Science DC-8, displaying new colors in a check flight Feb. 24, 2004, over the Dryden Flight Research Center.
2004: A Year of Significant Milestones at NASA Dryden
As 2004 drew to a close, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base looked back on a year of challenge and accomplishment in its role of NASA's lead center for atmospheric flight research.
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 NASA's B-52B launch aircraft takes off carrying the third X-43A hypersonic research vehicle
NASA's Famed B-52B "Mothership" Retirement
The end of an era in aerospace history was marked Friday, Dec. 17, when NASA retired its venerable B-52B "mothership" heavy-lift launch aircraft.
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 Always chasing tomorrow, NASA 008 began an early morning mission.
NASA's Famous B-52B Retires
An airplane that always carried the future under its wing.
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 The DC-8 - bearing its Dryden paint scheme - flies a mission in 2004. The research aircraft recently returned from a mission in Alaska.
DC-8 completes Alaskan mission
NASA's DC-8 traveled to frosty Alaska in November to study active volcanoes, the Hubbard glacier, forests and sea ice. Using the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR), digital elevation models were taken that will allow scientists to evaluate landscape changes and assess volcanic hazards.
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+ View Dec 04 issue of X-Press
 
 In the event of a chemical spill, ChemSecure allows an emergency responder to receive critical first response information.
NASA Dryden Deploys "ChemSecure" Hazmat Management System
Dryden is implementing an extensive wireless, sensor-based system aimed at improving the management of hazardous materials.
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 Pegasus booster rocket ignites
NASA'S X-43A
Scramjet Breaks Speed Record
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 Infrared image of Mach 6.8 X-43A flight.
Mach 10 Marvel
This high-risk flight demanded that no details be overlooked.
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 Laurie Marshall, at work as NASA Dryden's chief engineer for the third flight of the hypersonic X-43A research vehicle.
X-43A Engineer
NASA Dryden's Laurie Marshall explores hypersonic flight.
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 Kerisha Schultz (center), the daughter of Craig and Dawn Schultz of California City, was recently named the recipient of the Joseph A. Walker Memorial Scholarship
NASA Dryden Memorial Scholarship Winner Announced
Kerisha Schultz was recently named the recipient of the Joseph A. Walker Memorial Scholarship.
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 New astronaut class in front of X-15 model
New Explorers
Newest astronaut candidates energized by visit to NASA Dryden.
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 U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye
E-2C Hawkeye
Loads Lab Tapped for 7-Month Navy Job
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 Takeoff of Altair unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
UAVs Taking Center Stage
Dryden role extends to include other areas of aeronautics research.
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2004 Features
Sept. 27 X-43A Scramjet Primed for Mach 10
Aug. 31 Guinness World Records Recognizes Nasa X-43A Speed Record
Aug. 16 NASA Research Pilot / Astronaut Gets Own "Bobblehead" Doll Likeness
Aug. 13 NASA's Workhorse Gets New Markings
Aug. 2 Flying as an Art Form
July 27 Mach 7 NASA Team Members Come to Oshkosh
July 23 Summer isn't dull for SHARP students at NASA Dryden
July 22 Memoirs Of Retired Dryden Chief Scientist Ken Iliff Published
July 19 The Last 300 Feet to the Moon
July 16 From the Mojave to the Moon: Neil Armstrong's Early NASA Years
June 29 Titan-Size Tool
June 23 Hundreds of Youths Tour NASA Dryden on Take Your Children to Work Day
May 15 NASA Exhibits Futuristic Technology at NextFest
May 12 Arizona Students Simulated Life-Saving Decisions During Volcano Exercise
May 10 World's Fastest Man Remembered
May 5 Attitude Can Enable the Disabled, Speaker Tells Dryden Crowd
Apr. 22 Dryden's Steve Parcel Receives NASA Video Award
Apr. 16 Lively Laurie Marshall
Apr. 13 Edwards Middle School Students Like Four-footed Martian Robots
Mar. 27 X-43A Mission Takes Off
Mar. 3 NASA's O'Keefe Kicks Off Airborne Science Expedition
Feb. 17 Off we go into outer space, via Arizona
Jan. 26 Second X-43 Takes a Ride Under the B-52
Jan. 26 Laughter and jubilation soften the tension of another amazing landing on Mars
Jan. 9 Switching from throttle to paintbrush - NASA Pilot excels at art and flying
Jan. 6 Red Rovers: From Dry Lakes on Earth to Dry Lakes on Mars

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