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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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 ...
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.
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.
Kerianne Hobbs' first memory of NASA was a family visit to NASA's Johnson Space Center when she was six.
Earth and space science aircraft fit nicely into Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility.
Educators are invited to participate in two science workshops offered in early May.
› Moon and Meteorite Certification flyer (pdf)
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.
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.
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.
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.
NASA's G-III research aircraft is radar mapping and monitoring Arctic ice on Greenland and Iceland this Spring.
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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.
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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.
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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Photos, video and graphics of Dryden aircraft