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Griffith Observatory the Spot for Endeavour Flyby
Thousands of spectators gathered at Griffith Observatory in Griffith Park to catch a glimpse of space shuttle Endeavour atop its 747 carrier aircraft.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Comes Home to Los Angeles
Space shuttle Endeavour atop its 747 carrier aircraft landed at Los Angeles International Airport after a tour of California to end its flight career.
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NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905's Front Office
Jon Brack shot this panoramic view of the pilots' and flight engineer's stations on NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for National Geographic.
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NASA Social: A Different Viewpoint On Shuttle Ops
Read details in Jay Levine's feature on the NASA Social hosted at NASA Dryden in connection with the space shuttle Endeavour's final ferry flight.
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Shuttle Endeavour's Final Ferry Flight Sept. 17-20
Low-level flyovers and two stopovers planned as last space shuttle built is ferried to Los Angeles for permanent display at California Science Center.
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NASA's Global Hawk Mission Begins Hurricane Study
NASA began its latest hurricane science mission, dubbed HS3, when an unmanned NASA Global Hawk flew over Tropical Storm Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Zero-G Parabolic Flight Dedicated to Neil Armstrong
NASA's Flight Opportunities Program researchers dedicate one of 40 microgravity flight tests in memory of the late Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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Solid Rocket Boosters Arrive at Dryden for Storage
Two solid rocket booster casings for space shuttle Endeavour exhibit to be stored at NASA Dryden pending transfer to California Science Center
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Neil Armstrong: 'Dedicated Enough to Dare Greatly'
Retired NASA astronaut and research pilot Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon in the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, dies at age 82.
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NASA's SOFIA to Embark on New Cycle of Science
The SOFIA observatory set to begin its first full cycle of 46 astronomical science flights over 13 months from November 2012 through December 2013.
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Dryden Hosts Social Media for Endeavour Arrival
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center is inviting 40 of its social media followers to a "NASA Social" Sept. 19–20 to herald shuttle Endeavour's return.
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Dryden Employees Recognized at NASA Honor Awards
Twenty-six outstanding employees and six project teams were honored at the annual NASA Honor Awards ceremonies Aug. 23 at NASA Dryden.
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NASA Selects Two Technologies For Suborbital Tests
Flight Opportunities Program selects new technologies for suborbital flights to test the payloads' functionality before deployment on future missions.
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Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments
NASA's HS3 mission will be studying hurricanes in late summer with two high-altitude, long-duration Global Hawks each carrying different instruments.
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NASA ER-2 Collects Perseids Meteor Shower Dust
NASA's ER-2 is using underwing Large Area Collectors to collect cosmic dust during the Perseids meteor shower the second week of August.
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Slumgullion Imaging: Hows and Whys of a Landslide
Radar images of Colorado's centuries-old Slumgullion landslide from NASA's C-20A Earth science aircraft aid scientists' understanding of slide motion.
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Transformed X-48C Takes to the Air on First Flight
The sub-scale NASA-Boeing X-48C Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator begins flight tests of modified low-noise configuration.
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Hurricane Study a Challenge to Global Hawk Pilots
NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission will require Global Hawk pilots to fly the unmanned aircraft from two locations on opposite coasts.
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Joe Engle Recalls the Legacy of the X-15 Rocket Plane
Retired Air Force test pilot, NASA astronaut recounts contributions of the X-15 to the space shuttle and future space vehicles at Dryden colloquium.
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MSL SUCCESS! Curiosity Lands on Mars!
One-ton Mars Science Laboratory survives "seven minutes of terror" to make soft landing; begins two-year exploration of Mars' geology in Gale Crater.