The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Lifetime Achievement, the museum's highest honor, has been awarded to two distinguished NASA recipients, former astronaut and research pilot ...
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Arctic Ice Radar Surveys Now Under Way in Greenland, Iceland
JPL scientist Tim Miller acquires data over North America’s wetlands on NASA Dryden’s twin-jet Gulfstream III equipped for airborne radar investigation of the Greenland and Iceland glaciers. (NASA photo / Chung-Lun "Ernie" Chuang)
After a two-day ferry flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California, a team of scientists and pilots aboard NASA's Gulfstream-III environmental research aircraft have begun flying missions intended to monitor the flows and map Arctic ice fields and glaciers in Greenland and Iceland.
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JPL scientist Tim Miller acquires data over North America’s wetlands on NASA Dryden’s twin-jet Gulfstream III equipped for airborne radar investigation of the Greenland and Iceland glaciers. (NASA photo / Chung-Lun "Ernie" Chuang) After a two-day ferry flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California, a team of scientists and pilots aboard NASA's Gulfstream-III environmental research aircraft have begun flying missions intended to monitor the flows and map Arctic ice fields and glaciers in Greenland and Iceland.
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NASA ER-2 Collects Dust from the Cosmos
A NASA ER-2 science aircraft from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center is flying a series of cosmic dust collection missions April 27 through May 8, 2009 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
Afterburner: Keeping the Flame Burning at NASA Dryden
Jet engines are extremely sophisticated, exactingly engineered marvels of modern ingenuity. Henry Hernandez, chief of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's jet engine shop, knows those marvels well.
News and Features
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Embry-Riddle Engineering Student Blends Art, Science at NASA
Kerianne Hobbs' first memory of NASA was a family visit to NASA's Johnson Space Center when she was six.
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NASA Science Aircraft Get New Home
Earth and space science aircraft fit nicely into Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility.
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NASA Dryden Offers Two Science Workshops for Educators in May
Educators are invited to participate in two science workshops offered in early May.
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Dryden Director Kevin Petersen's Final Flight
Retiring center director Kevin L. Petersen received a speedy and splashing sendoff April 2 as he wrapped up a more than 37-year career as a research engineer, manager and center director at Dryden.
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Aerodynamic Truck Studies Honored
Research at NASA Dryden more than 35 years ago that led to improvements in the fuel economy of large long-haul trucks has been honored by the Space Foundation.
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SOFIA Science Mission Operations Director Selected
Erick Young, a widely recognized authority on infrared astronomy, has been appointed science mission operations director for NASA's Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA.
Dryden Spotlight
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STS-125
STS-125 will make the final trip to service the Hubble Telescope. Over the course of five spacewalks, the STS-125 crew will install two new instruments, repair two inactive ones, and perform the component replacements that will keep the telescope functioning at least into 2014.
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NASA Mission Monitors Arctic Ice
NASA's G-III research aircraft is radar mapping and monitoring Arctic ice on Greenland and Iceland this Spring.
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Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle
Time-lapse video of the Orion Abort Flight Test Demonstrator undergoing weight, balance and center of gravity tests at NASA Dryden.
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SOFIA
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.
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Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
Our new aircraft operations facility in Palmdale offers the expanded space needed to manage Dryden's airborne science missions and research platforms.
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Research Update
Current flight research projects and programs being flown at Dryden Flight Research Center.
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This Week in Dryden's History
A collection of historical facts and events from Dryden's last 50 years.
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50th Anniversary X-Press
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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Aircraft Imagery
Photos, video and graphics of Dryden aircraft