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NASA pilots, engineers, and communications specialists brief the day’s operations prior to a supersonic research...
NASA pilots, engineers, and communications specialists brief the day’s operations prior to a supersonic research...
DOUGLAS XA3D-1 #413 AIRPLANE MOUNTED IN THE NACA AMES RESEARCH CENTER'S 40X80_FOOT SUBSONIC WIND TUNNEL Testing the...
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft begins its taxi Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from Lockheed Martin’s Skunk...
Researchers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory purposely...
JSC2002-E-01744 (16 January 2002) --- Astronaut Scott D. Altman, STS-109 mission commander, photographed in a T-38...
JSC2002-E-01742 (16 January 2002) --- Astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, STS-109 mission specialist, photographed in a...
JSC2002-E-01743 (16 January 2002) --- Astronaut Duane G. Carey, STS-109 pilot, photographed in a T-38 trainer jet,...
ER-2 tail number 709, was one of two Airborne Science ER-2s used as science platforms by Dryden. The aircraft were...
JSC2002-E-01745 (16 January 2002) --- Astronaut John M. Grunsfeld, STS-109 payload commander, photographed in the...
ER-2 tail number 709, was one of two Airborne Science ER-2s used as science platforms by Dryden. The aircraft were...
ER-2 tail number 709, was one of two Airborne Science ER-2s used as science platforms by Dryden. The aircraft were...
ER-2 tail number 709, was one of two Airborne Science ER-2s used as science platforms by Dryden. The aircraft were...
The uniquely-shaped Proteus high-altitude research aircraft lifts off from the runway at the Mojave Airport in...
JSC2002-E-01740 (16 January 2002) --- Astronaut Michael J. Massimino, STS-109 mission specialist, photographed in a...
JSC2002-E-01741 (16 January 2002) --- Astronaut James H. Newman, STS-109 mission specialist, photographed in a T-38...
Southern Africa produces almost a third of the world’s vegetative burning, which sends smoke particles up into the...
At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket is mated to the company's L-1011...
An Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket is mated to the underside of the company's L-1011 Stargazer aircraft. The Stargazer...
A sign just inside the gate to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida notes that in seven days a Pegasus XL rocket...
In Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket is seen after payload...
At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket is transported to be mated to the...
At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket is seen during payload fairing...
At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket is mated to the company's L-1011...