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This photo shows NASA's PIK-20E motor-glider sailplane during a research flight from the Ames-Dryden Flight Research...
NASA research pilot John A. Manke is seen here in front of the M2-F3 Lifting Body. Manke was hired by NASA on May...
Because the number two X-29 at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later the Dryden Flight Research Center)...
SOFIA (Stratospheric Ovservatory for Infrared Astronomy) taking off from Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA to...
SOFIA (Stratospheric Ovservatory for Infrared Astronomy) taking off from Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA to...
NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft No. 911, with the space shuttle orbiter Endeavour securely mounted atop its...
NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft No. 911, with the space shuttle orbiter Endeavour securely mounted atop its...
In a lighter mood, Ed Schneider gives a "thumbs-up" after his last flight at the Dryden Flight Research Center on...
A drag chute slows the space shuttle Columbia as it rolls to a perfect landing concluding NASA's longest mission at...
Space Shuttle Columbia nears its touchdown on Runway 22 at Edwards, California, at 8:39 a.m., 14 June 1991, as the...
This image shows a plastic 1/48-scale model of an F-18 aircraft inside the "Water Tunnel" more formally known as the...
The crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis gives the "all's well" thumb's-up sign after leaving the 100-ton orbiter...
This photo shows a head-on view of NASA's SR-71B, used for pilot proficiency and training, on the ramp at the Air...
The Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down at 3:35 p.m. PST on 6 December 1988 at NASA's then Ames-Dryden Flight...
Mission control Blue Room, seen here, in building 4800 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, is part of the...
The Space Shuttle Endeavour concludes mission STS-49 at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later...
The Space Shuttle Endeavour concludes mission STS-49 at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later...
This photo shows the instrumentation and equipment inside the Spacewedge #3, a remotely-piloted research vehicle...
This photo shows the Shuttle tile flight test fixture under the wing of a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric...
Crew members load a Spacewedge subscale research model into a Cessna aircraft for flight testing in 1996. The...
One of the Spacewedge remotely-piloted research vehicles in flight under a steerable parafoil during 1995 research...
The Spacewedge subscale research model glides in toward a touchdown at a California City landing zone during 1992...
A Rans S-12 remotely piloted "mothership" takes off from a lakebed runway carrying a Spacewedge research model...
The STS-29 Space Shuttle Discovery mission approaches for a landing at NASA's then Ames-Dryden Flight Research...