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CID (Controlled Imact Demonstrator) Aircraft prior to wing cutter impact during lakebed skid.
A North American Aviation A-5A Vigilante (Navy serial number 147858/NASA tail number 858) arrived from the Naval Air...
A North American Aviation A-5A Vigilante (Navy serial number 147858/NASA tail number 858) arrived from the Naval Air...
The M2-F1 following a hard landing on Rogers Dry Lake in 1963. It hit the lakebed so hard the rolling gear...
Early NACA research aircraft on the lakebed at the High Speed Research Station in 1955: Left to right: X-1E,...
Following initial captive flight tests last year at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base,...
PTERA takes off from the Rogers Dry Lakebed on a flight to test the ability of an innovative, lightweight material,...
Documentary views of Space Shuttle Columbia on Lakebed Runway during De-Servicing, Crew Egress and departure from...
Documentary aerial and ground views of the Columbia sitting on the Lakebed Runway with the deservicing trucks...
The X-38, a research vehicle built to help develop technology for an emergency Crew Return Vehicle (CRV), flares for...
Following the first M2-F1 airtow flight on 16 August 1963, the Flight Research Center used the vehicle for both...
After initial ground-tow flights of the M2-F1 using the Pontiac as a tow vehicle, the way was clear to make air tows...
Bruce A. Peterson standing beside the M2-F2 lifting body on Rogers Dry Lake. Peterson became the NASA project pilot...
Holden Crater was once filled by at least two different lakes. The sediments deposited in those lakes are relatively...
This evenly layered rock photographed by the Mast Camera Mastcam on NASA Curiosity Mars Rover on Aug. 7, 2014, shows...
This photo shows the HL-10 in flight, turning to line up with lakebed runway 18. The pilot for this flight, the 29th...
51G-S-225 (24 June 1985) --- Discovery, with its seven-member 51-G crew aboard, touches down on a dry lakebed at...
STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, with nose landing gear (NLG) and main landing gear (MLG) deployed glides...
51G-S-224 (24 June 1985) --- Discovery, with its seven-member 51-G crew aboard, touches down on a dry lakebed at...
The Alta 8 remotely piloted aircraft flies above Rosamond North Lakebed at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center...
iss073e0886770 (Oct. 1, 2025) --- Laguna Salada is a dry lakebed in the Baja California portion of the Sonoran...
Justin Hall flies the Alta 8 remotely piloted aircraft in March 2021 at Rosamond North Lakebed at NASA’s Armstrong...
The Alta 8 remotely piloted aircraft hovers above Rosamond North Lakebed in March 2021 at NASA's Armstrong Flight...
John Manke is shown here on the lakebed next to the HL-10, one of four different lifting-body vehicles he flew,...