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Guppy Gear

NASA's Super Guppy gets a new landing gear.

Students Intrigued by NASA Career Possibilities.

NASA Explorer School students encouraged by opportunities.

Dryden's Lori Losey Named NASA Videographer Of Year

A videographer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has won the aerospace agency's highest award for videography for 2004.

Space Shuttle Landing Training Exercise

Personnel from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and Edwards Air Force Base conducted a training exercise this past weekend that would enable them to effectively handle the rescue of a Space Shuttle crew in the unlikely event of a landing mishap at the base.

NOAA and NASA Begin California UAV Flight Experiment

Can unmanned aircraft be used effectively for Earth Science experiments? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in cooperation with NASA and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI), are seeking to answer that question during a series of atmospheric and oceanic research flights off the California coastline this spring.

Public Meeting On NASA Dryden TCE Cleanup Plan Scheduled

A proposed plan to clean up potentially hazardous chemical contamination at three groundwater sites at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base will be outlined a public meeting in California City April 27.

Gordon Fullerton Inducted into Astronaut Hall of Fame

Michael Griffin Takes Helm as NASA Administrator

NASA Dryden's X-43 Team Represented At Aviation Week's Laurel Awards

Two members of the X-43 flight research project team from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center were on hand Tuesday evening, April 5, when the X-43 / Hyper-X project team and several of its major players were honored by Aviation Week and Space Technology.

Robots' work extends beyond physical tasks in Las Vegas.

Student teams compete.

Command Performance

Brig. Gen. Curtis Bedke, commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, received some first-hand insight this week on how to fly a Space Shuttle approach and landing

NASA Credentialing Media for Possible Shuttle Landing at Edwards AFB

The Space Shuttle Discovery is targeted for launch from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on the Return-to-Flight mission STS-114 during a window between May 15 and June 3. Discovery is scheduled to land at KSC at the conclusion of the mission about 11 days later. However, if the weather or other conditions prevent a landing in Florida, the shuttle could be diverted to the primary back-up landing site at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Noted NASA Aeronautics Researcher Dale Reed Dies

Robert Dale Reed, a distinguished NASA aeronautics researcher who pioneered Lifting Body and remotely piloted research aircraft programs at the Dryden Flight Research Center in the 1960s and 70s has died.

New Flight Software Allows UAVs To Team Up For Virtual Fire Experiment

The old saying, "birds of a feather, flock together," can now be applied to a couple of small uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) flown in a NASA research experiment using principles derived from studies of fish and bird motions to simultaneously guide them around obstacles.

NASA Flight Tests Validate Active Aeroelastic Wing Design Concept

A flight research project that put a 21st century twist on a century-old technology -- a high-tech derivative of the Wright brothers' wing-warping method of controlling an aircraft's turning ability -- can be summed up in two words: "It works!"

NASA Dryden Engineer Wins Prestigious Engineering Award

The National Society of Black Engineers will honor NASA aeronautical engineer Laurie Marshall with the 2005 Golden Torch Award for Outstanding Woman in Technology of the Year.

Navy E-2C Hawkeye Undergoes Major Loads Tests at NASA Dryden

A U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye, a carrier-based electronics aircraft that serves as the eyes and ears of carrier battle groups, recently underwent structural loads tests at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Flight Loads Laboratory to determine if increasing the aircraft's gross weight will affect its performance.

NASA Celebrates 90 Years Of Aeronautics Excellence

On March 3, NASA marked the 90th anniversary of its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and the achievements of nearly a century of work in NASA's keystone discipline, aeronautics.

Space Shuttle Return To Flight Gets A "LIFT" From NASA Dryden F-15B

To help the Space Shuttle safely return to flight, NASA engineers are acquiring data on how insulating foam debris or "divots" behave when these small pieces are shed from the Shuttle's external fuel tank during launch.

T-38 Supersonic Trainer Jet Gets New Home

A sleek, supersonic T-38 trainer jet is taxied into the parking ramp at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center by Dryden's chief pilot Gordon Fullerton.