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NASA's 2017 astronaut candidates (L to R) Zena Cardman, Loral O'Hara, Frank Rubio, Jonny Kim, Raja Chari practice...
Altus I aircraft in flight, retracting landing gear after takeoff
High-Speed Research Station Director Walter C. Williams, NACA pilot A. Scott Crossfield, and Director of Flight...
An instrumented mannequin ejects, with help of pyrotechnics, from a specially modified YF-4J drone at the Naval...
NASA Dryden research pilot Gordon Fullerton is greeted by his wife Marie on the Dryden ramp after his final flight...
Climate researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and several universities install and...
NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory lifts off the runway at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., on its first flight in...
Climate researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and several universities install and...
This documentary traces the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) story from conception in pre-War Germany through its...
NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less is seen after completing his first flight of the X-59 and the aircraft’s second...
NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less is seen after completing his first flight of the X-59 and the aircraft’s second...
NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less is seen after completing his first flight of the X-59 and the aircraft’s second...
Operation IceBridge, a NASA airborne survey of changes in polar ice, recently completed its eighth consecutive...
Operation IceBridge, a NASA airborne survey of changes in polar ice, recently completed its eighth consecutive...
James Barrilleaux is the assistant chief pilot for ER-2s in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA's Dryden Flight Research...
Operation IceBridge, a NASA airborne survey of changes in polar ice, recently completed its eighth consecutive...
The benefits of space station research and development, refining the architecture for the Mars Sample Return...
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization...
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization...
The Lowell Observatory's High-speed Imaging Photometer for Occultation rests on its dolly in the lab prior to...
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization...
Preparing for a more powerful space station, building a more fuel-efficient aircraft, and a way to possibly predict...
Prelaunch Activities for Our Next Commercial Crew Flight Test, celebrating our home planet for Earth Day, and...
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization...