The last four crew members who flew aboard the famed triple-sonic Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird aircraft will be honored this Saturday evening, Aug. 15, by the Lancaster JetHawks baseball team during the t...
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Orion Abort Flight Test Crew Module Departs Dryden for White Sands
Technicians at NASA Dryden install the “goalpost” fixture to the Orion crew module integration stand during conversion of the stand into a transportation fixture for airlift of the module to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The crew module will be used in the first Orion Launch Abort System pad abort flight test, expected in early 2010. (NASA Photo / Jim Ross)
The Orion crew module that will be used for the first launch abort system Pad Abort 1 flight test is scheduled to depart NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center Aug. 19 for the White Sands Missile Range, N.M., where the launch abort flight tests will be performed.
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Technicians at NASA Dryden install the “goalpost” fixture to the Orion crew module integration stand during conversion of the stand into a transportation fixture for airlift of the module to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The crew module will be used in the first Orion Launch Abort System pad abort flight test, expected in early 2010. (NASA Photo / Jim Ross) The Orion crew module that will be used for the first launch abort system Pad Abort 1 flight test is scheduled to depart NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center Aug. 19 for the White Sands Missile Range, N.M., where the launch abort flight tests will be performed.
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Lancaster Jethawks to Honor Last SR-71 Flight Crews
Rake Airflow Gage Experiment Flies Again on NASA F-15B
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.
NASA's G-III and UAVSAR Conducting East Coast Vegetatio...
NASA's Gulfstream-III environmental science research aircraft is conducting a two-week radar imaging mission along the East Coast.
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Collision Avoidance Technology Flying Again at Dryden
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 Fighter Risk Reduction Project.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
 "Students in the INSPIRE internship program at NASA Dryden check out one of the two radio-controlled model aircraft before flight tests on Rosamond Dry Lake.")
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STS-128
The STS-128 crew will deliver logistics and supplies to the International Space Station.
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G-III Conducting East Coast Vegetation Study
NASA's Gulfstream-III environmental science aircraft is conducting an East Coast radar imaging mission.
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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.
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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
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