03.10.09 - Kevin L. Petersen, director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, announced he plans to retire from NASA effective April 3.
03.05.09 - NASA and the United States Air Force have designated three university and industry partners in California, Texas and Virginia as national hypersonic science centers.
03.02.09 - A flying model NASA built to research futuristic aircraft designs will spend its future in the United States' premier air and space museum.
02.25.09 - NASA has selected three companies to receive a subsonic rotary wing technology development contract valued at $40 million.
01.29.09 - NASA is looking for new technologies that have potential use in future agency projects.
01.22.09 - NASA is concluding a series of flight tests to measure shock waves generated by an F-15 jet.
01.15.09 - NASA and the Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles have unveiled the first Global Hawk aircraft system to be used for environmental science research, heralding a new application for the world's first fully autonomous high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft.
01.09.09 - NASA Selects Hampton Firms For Engineering Support
11.26.08 - NASA is investigating the best methods for monitoring brain activity as part of a study designed to help airplane pilots realize when they are operating under dangerous levels of stress, fatigue and distraction.
10.06.08 - NASA has awarded research contracts worth a total of $12.4 million to six industry teams to study advanced concepts for subsonic and supersonic commercial transport aircraft that could enter service in 25 to 30 years.