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Space Shuttle Columbia Launch at NASA KSC (Kennedy Space Center) Ref: 108-KSC-81PC-368
Artist: Ken Hodges Pioneer Galileo Probe descending into Jupiter's Atmosphere with parachute deployed, heat shield...
Galileo Probe test-358 in NASA Ames Research Center12ft Pressure Wind Tunnel
Lockheed ER-2 (NASA-706) in flight
NASA Ames Research Center Aircraft on ramp. Photographed front of Ames hangar.
Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Site (Cockpit crew John Young, Commander and Robert Crippen, Pilot) (ref: 80-HC-602)
Space Shuttle Columbia Launch Preparation at NASA KSC (Kennedy Space Center) Ref: 108-KSC-81PC-455
NASA Ames Research Center Aircraft and Helicopter compliment on ramp in front of Ames hangar.
Accident: X-14B crash on VTOL Pad Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Photo Credit: NASA Ames student...
Lockheed ER-2 (NASA-706) in flight Lockheed ref: C81-1197-13
ER-2 (NASA-706) in flight. (Lockheed C81-1197-13)
XV-15 (NASA 702) Tilt Rotor flight to DFRC- (at Dryden)
NASA Aircraft on ramp (Aerial view) Sides: (L) QSRA (R) C-8A AWJSRA - Back to Front: CV-990 (711) C-141 KAO, CV-990...
AD-1 (NASA 805) R.T. Jones during maiden visit to Ames.
XV-15 Tilt Rotor Aricraft at lamore Naval Air Station
Space Shuttle Columbia Launch Preparation at NASA KSC (Kennedy Space Center) Ref: 108-KSC-81PC-98
ER-2 (NASA-706) in flight. (Lockheed C81-1197-13)
XV-15 Tilt Rotor Aricraft at lamore Naval Air Station
QSRA (Quite STOL Research Aircraft) NASA-715 C-8A Tufts during the CCW tests out of NASA Ames
Accident: X-14B crash on VTOL Pad Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Photo Credit: NASA Ames student...
Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Site. (ref: 81-HC-1)
After completing it's first orbital mission with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base on April 14, 1981, Space...
Leading Edge Vortex Suppression Series with Christine Darden in photos
Portrait of Christine M. Darden