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MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. – In the Mojave Desert in California, the Garvey Spacecraft Corporation's Prospector P-18D...
A 3670-horsepower Armstrong-Siddeley Python turboprop being prepared for tests in the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the...
Orion’s Ascent Abort-2 flight test will evaluate the spacecraft’s launch abort system during some of the most...
This high-altitude research plane, a specially equipped Dryden Flight Research Center ER-2 (a modified U-2), is...
An aerial video crew observed the October 28, 2009 Ares I-X test flight from a Cessna Skymaster aircraft positioned...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Shuttle Landing Facility, the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) waits for the...
This photo shows a head-on view of NASA's SR-71B, used for pilot proficiency and training, on the ramp at the Air...
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...
S78-34927 (31 Aug. 1978) --- Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton, one of a group of eight astronauts named to fly the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the early dawn, STS-121 Pilot Mark Kelly is ready for takeoff from the Shuttle...
The pilot climbs into the cockpit of a high-altitude research plane, a specially equipped Dryden Flight Research...
Engineers successfully evaluated a failure scenario of Orion’s parachute system in which only two of the system’s...
Engineers successfully evaluated a failure scenario of Orion’s parachute system in which only two of the system’s...
The Global Hawk Whole Air Sampler, or GWAS instrument compresses samples of high-altitude air in canisters to...
Engineers successfully evaluated a failure scenario of Orion’s parachute system in which only two of the system’s...
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Plum Brook Station in Ohio, ready to undergo testing in the...
Engineers successfully evaluated a failure scenario of Orion’s parachute system in which only two of the system’s...
Engineers successfully evaluated a failure scenario of Orion’s parachute system in which only two of the system’s...
MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. – In the Mojave Desert in California, students from Merritt Island High School in Florida...
During the 1970s, the focus at Dryden shifted from high-speed and high-altitude flight to incremental improvements...
MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. – In the Mojave Desert in California, students from Merritt Island High School in Florida...
The solar-powered Helios Prototype flying wing frames two modified F-15 research aircraft in a hangar at NASA's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-114 Pilot James Kelly suits up for practice flights on a Shuttle Training Aircraft...