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A technician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory cleans the...
Construction workers install the drive motor for the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) in the Exhauster Building at the...
The NASA SR-71A successfully completed its first cold flow flight as part of the NASA/Rocketdyne/Lockheed Martin...
A mechanic checks the tubing on one of the many jacks which control the nozzle section of the 10- by 10-Foot...
Reverend Henry Birkenhauer and E.F. Carome measure ground vibrations on West 220th Street caused by the operation of...
In 1949, after graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Art, James “Jim” Modarelli began his career as an...
The 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory was built under the...
Then and Now: These images illustrate the dramatic improvement in NASA computing power over the last 23 years, and...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) researchers set up instrumentation on a 0.037- scale model of a...
One of the 12 ejectable data recorders from NASA’s Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) flight test is retrieved from the Atlantic...
A researcher examines an Advanced Technology Transport model installed in the 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at...
Researchers Robert Cummings, left, and Harold Gold with the small Low Cost Engine in the shadow of the much larger...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In Hangar 1555 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a worker paints the...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In Hangar 1555 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the name “Mercator”...
Screwjacks located on the exterior of the second throat section in the 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the...
The first X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket were carried aloft by NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery rises majestically from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
The X-34 Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) concept is pictured here. NASA plarned to utilize the X-34 small reusable...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Flaming rockets propel Space Shuttle Atlantis into the sky or a rendezvous with the...
A NACA researcher prepares a 16-inch diameter and 16-foot long ramjet for a launch over Wallops Island in July 1947....
Members of the NASA Ejectable Data Recorder Recovery Team display some of the ejectable data recorders they...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery hurtles toward space on...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The name “Mercator” is boldly displayed on the nose of the Pegasus XL rocket....
NASA Lewis Research Center researcher, John S. Sarafini, uses a laser doppler velocimeter to analyze a Hamilton...