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DFRC Severe Weather Instructions

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    Popular Science Honors NASA's Orion Launch Abort System

    Mockups of the Orion crew module and Launch Abort System stand Mockups of the Orion crew module and Launch Abort System stand adjacent to the launch gantry at White Sands Missile Range after technicians stacked the mockups to familiarize technicians with the procedure prior to using actual launch abort system hardware. (NASA / WSMR photo)

    Popular Science magazine has honored NASA's Orion Launch Abort System with a Best of What's New award for 2009 in the aviation and space category.

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Mallick, Matranga Interviewed About LLRV for ...

Popular Los Angeles television host Huell Howser interviews retired NASA Dryden research pilot Don Mallick Nov. 18 in front of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) he flew during the mid-1960s

Popular Los Angeles television host Huell Howser interviews retired NASA Dryden research pilot Don Mallick Nov. 18 in front of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) he flew during the mid-1960s.

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Low-Level Antarctic Ice Bridge Flights Continue; More ...

NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory flies over Palmer Station, Antarctica, during an Operation Ice Bridge flight

NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory continues to carry scientists and their sensors over the frozen Antarctic landscape as part of the Operation Ice Bridge mission.

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LaserMotive Wins $900,000 from NASA in Space Elevator ...

Andy Petro of NASA's Centennial Challenges program congratulates Tom Nugent and Jordan Kare of the LaserMotive team that won the Space Elevator Power-Beaming Challenge Games at NASA Dryden Nov. 6

The Seattle-based LaserMotive team was declared the winner of the Space Elevator Power-Beaming Challenge Games Nov. 6 after the final day of competition at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on ...

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