Heart failure -- like structural failure in an aircraft -- is serious business.
Heart failure -- like structural failure in an aircraft -- is serious business.
Tom Benson teaches students the physics of flight by comparing airplanes and rockets to baseball.
NASA engineer Starr Ginn lives an aviation-filled life.
A futuristic aircraft model that flew in a NASA wind tunnel is the centerpiece of a newly renovated gallery in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
Helicopters today are considered a loud, bumpy and inefficient mode for day-to-day domestic travel, but NASA research could change that view.
It's a simple goal, really. A silent airplane that sends no carbon into the atmosphere.
NASA and 11 other research groups are testing two non-petroleum-based jet fuels in the pursuit of alternative fuels that can power commercial jets and address rising oil costs.
03.10.09 - Kevin L. Petersen, director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, announced he plans to retire from NASA effective April 3.
03.05.09 - NASA and the United States Air Force have designated three university and industry partners in California, Texas and Virginia as national hypersonic science centers.
03.02.09 - A flying model NASA built to research futuristic aircraft designs will spend its future in the United States' premier air and space museum.