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NASA's X-38, a research vehicle developed as part of an effort to build an emergency Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) for...
NASA's X-38, a research vehicle developed as part of an effort to build an emergency Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) for...
A close-up view of the front end of a Pegasus rocket booster being prepared by technicians at the Dryden Flight...
The HL-10 Lifting Body is seen here in powered flight shortly after launch from the B-52 mothership. When HL-10...
Technicians prepare a Pegasus rocket booster for flight tests with the X-43A "Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle," or...
Attached to the same B-52B mothership that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's third X-43A...
A Rans S-12 remotely piloted "mothership" takes off from a lakebed runway carrying a Spacewedge research model...
The Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT) research vehicle is shown here mated to a wing pylon on NASA’s...
Attached to the same B-52B mothership that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's third X-43A...
NASA's X-38, a research vehicle developed as part of an effort to build an emergency Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) for...
The Pegasus air-launched space booster is carried aloft under the right wing of NASA's B-52 carrier aircraft on its...
The X-40 sub-scale technology demonstrator and its U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter mothership fly over a dry...
The NASA X-43A hypersonic research vehicle and its Pegasus booster rocket, mounted beneath the wing of their B-52...
The NASA X-43A hypersonic research vehicle and its Pegasus booster rocket, mounted beneath the wing of their B-52...
The NASA X-43A hypersonic research vehicle and its Pegasus booster rocket, mounted beneath the wing of their B-52...
The NASA X-43A hypersonic research vehicle and its Pegasus booster rocket, mounted beneath the wing of their B-52...
Dale Reed with a model of the M2-F1 in front of the actual lifting body. Reed used the model to show the potential...
Dryden Center director Kevin Petersen shakes hands with AFFTC commander, Brig. Gen. Curtis Bedke, at the retirement...
DFRC director Kevin Petersen speaks to an audience of NASA and Air Force visitors, employees and special guests at...
Final preparations are underway for NASA’s B-52B to carry the Pegasus booster rocket and the hypersonic X-43A...
From left, pilot Craig Bomben, photographer Carla Thomas, pilot Frank Batteas, and videographer Lori Losey make up...
The Pegasus booster rocket, carrying the X-43A hypersonic aircraft, is mounted beneath NASA’s B-52B wing. A dry run,...
The X-43A is attached to the front of a Pegasus booster rocket, which is set to be carried beneath NASA’s B-52B...
The first of three X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus® booster rocket recently underwent...