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Rake Airflow Gage Experiment Flies Again on NASA F-15B

NASA Dryden's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft takes off on a RAGE research flight on Aug. 5, 2009. (NASA photo / Tony Landis)

NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently conducted a flight test of an airflow-measurement device mounted underneath its F-15B research aircraft in the Rake Airflow Gage Experiment, or RAGE.

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NASA's G-III and UAVSAR Conducting East Coast Vegetatio...

NASA's Gulfstream-III research testbed lifts off with the UAV synthetic aperture radar pod.

AAfter three days on display at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture 2009 in Oshkosh, Wis., NASA’s NASA's Gulfstream-III environmental science research aircraft has embarked on a two-wee...

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Collision Avoidance Technology Flying Again at Dryden

F-16D aircraft takes off from Edwards Air Force Base.

Dryden is working with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop collision avoidance technologies for fighter/attack aircraft that would reduce the risk of ground and mid-air collisions in the...

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NASA Student Airborne Research Program Takes Flight

Twenty-nine undergraduate and graduate students are participating in a six-week NASA Airborne Science field experience designed to immerse them in NASA's Earth Science research.

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News and Features

The LLRV / LLTV – Preparing Apollo’s Astronauts for Landing on the Moon

Following the challenge by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth, two separate entities began working on a way to prepare astronauts for the critical descent and landing on the moon. The problems facing them were considerable: how to build a free-flying simulator that could negate 5/6ths of the Earth's gravity while entirely eliminating the effects of the atmosphere, since the moon had no atmosphere and only 1/6th of Earth's gravity.
Michigan University Student Interning At NASA Field Center

Scott Buffa gave up a summer in cool, rainy Rochester, Mich., for an opportunity to work with NASA as an Undergraduate Student Research Program intern at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
NASA Dryden Participating in Airventure 2009 at Oskosh

NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is again participating in America's largest air show.
INSPIRE Student Interns Learning Flight Test First-Hand

Student interns in NASA’s INSPIRE program are learning first-hand about the process of flight testing experimental aircraft this summer at NASA Dryden.
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X-15 Program Contributed to Apollo Lunar Missions

North American Aviation X-15 rocket planes served as flying laboratories above the reaches of the atmosphere.
NASA’s G-III Radar to Image Volcanic Activity in Alaska, Cascades

NASA's Gulfstream III departs the Dryden Flight Research Center on July 21 for Anchorage, Alaska.
Illinois University Student Fulfills Dream at NASA

Citing a visit to the NASA craftsmen exhibit at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture airshow, at Oshkosh, Wisc., David Klassman decided he wanted to work for NASA.

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Dryden Spotlight

STS-127

Space shuttle mission STS-127 delivered the final components of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory to the International Space Station.
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NASA Radar Images Volcanic Activity

NASA's G-III research aircraft is radar imaging volcanic activity in the Cascades and Alaska this month.

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Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle

NASA Dryden is leading the Orion crew module launch abort system flight test effort, including crew module systems integration for the first two flights.
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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.
Research Update

Current flight research projects and programs being flown at Dryden Flight Research Center.
This Week in Dryden's History

A collection of historical facts and events from Dryden's last 50 years.
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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