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The Meteorological Measurement System, or MMS instrument measures the data of wind and temperatures in real-time...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Mike Lane, left, and Paul Paulick, both participants in the Rocket University program,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Alejandro Azocar, a Rocket University participant, prepares an instrument package to launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Rocket University participants prepare to launch a high-altitude balloon flight and...
An Atlas/Centaur mass model undergoes a separation test inside the Space Power Chambers at NASA Lewis Research...
One of the two altitude simulating-test chambers in Engine Research Building at the National Advisory Committee for...
The Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory’s first aircraft, a Martin B–26B Marauder, parked in front of the Flight...
High above Alaska and Canada, researchers from NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) are studying...
The ER-2 high-altitude aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale,...
A National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) photographer films the test of a ramjet engine at the Lewis...
The solar-powered Helios Prototype flying wing frames two modified F-15 research aircraft in a hangar at NASA's...
The pilot of this high-altitude research plane, a specially equipped Dryden Flight Research Center ER-2 (a modified...
This high-altitude research plane, a specially equipped Dryden Flight Research Center ER-2, stops at Patrick Air...
The Pathfinder research aircraft's wing structure is clearly defined in this photo as personnel from AeroVironment...
Aerosol data from the High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO), pictured here, will give mission scientists a better...
The Global Hawk Whole Air Sampler, or GWAS instrument compresses samples of high-altitude air in canisters to...
NASA research pilot Bill Dana after his fourth free flight (1 glide and 3 powered) in the HL-10. This particular...
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Plum Brook Station in Ohio, ready to undergo testing in the...
NASA's Helios Prototype aircraft taking off from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, for the record...
A Rolls Royce Avon RA-14 engine was tested in the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the National Advisory Committee for...
Construction workers install the drive motor for the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) in the Exhauster Building at the...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Orbital Sciences’ L-1011 aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Orbital Sciences’ L-1011 aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – On the ramp of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, workers make final...