Miscellaneous: EC03-0163-16 The mural was created...
EC03-0163-16 The mural was created to celebrate the achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright and to commemorate a century of powered flight. Central to the composition is the 1903 Wright Flyer. ''On Dec. 17, 1... More
NACA Aircraft on Lakebed-X-3, D-558-1, XF4D, D-558-2
A group picture of Douglas Airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The photo includes the X-3 (in ... More
Dr. Hugh L. Dryden seated at desk
As a very young undergraduate Student at Johns Hopkins University Hugh L. Dryden proved himself especially gifted in physics and mathematics and began advanced study with Professor Joseph Ames, an important fig... More
NACA Aircraft in hangar 1953 - L-R: Three D-558-2s, D-558-1, B-47, win...
The aircraft in this 1953 photo of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hangar at South Base of Edwards Air Force Base showed the wide range of research activities being undertaken. On the lef... More
At NASA Dryden, Aerospace industry representatives view actual and moc...
Aerospace industry representatives view actual and mock-up versions of 'X-Planes' intended to enhance access to space during a technical exposition on June 22, 2000 at Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Ca... More
NASA DFRC Mate-Demate Device (MDD) full side view looking northwest, s...
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographer: Tom Tschida Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to t... More
B-52 Launch Aircraft in Flight. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
NASA's venerable B-52 mothership is seen here photographed from a KC-135 Tanker aircraft. The X-43 adapter is visible attached to the right wing. The B-52, used for launching experimental aircraft and for other... More
NASA M2-F2, Dryden history gallery
EC66-1567 The M2-F2 Lifting Body returns from a research flight at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, with an F-104 flying chase. The success of Dryden's M2-F1 program led to NASA's de... More
X-38 Ship #2 in Free Flight after Release from B-52 Mothership
The X-38 research vehicle drops away from NASA's B-52 mothership immediately after being released from the B-52's wing pylon. More than 30 years earlier, this same B-52 launched the original lifting-body vehicl... More
HL-10 Landing with F-104 Chase Aircraft
ECN-2367 HL-10 touches down on its main landing gear, while the pilot was holding the nose up to slow the vehicle. The F-104 in the background was used as a chase plane. Its pilot would give the HL-10's pilot c... More
NASA HL-10, Dryden history gallery
ECN-2353The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from left to right are the X-24A, M2-F3 and the HL-10. The liftin... More
View from Helicopter of STS-128 Discovery in Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Night time shots of Mate-Demate Device (MDD) with all the lights on (e...
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Dawn Shots of shuttle and 747 in Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Shuttle and 747 in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Shuttle and 747 in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Front detail view of STS-125 Atlantis in Mate-Demate Device (MDD) over...
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
NASA DFRC Mate-Demate Device (MDD) full front view looking northeast
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographer: Tom Tschida Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to t... More
The orbiter Columbia sits on Rogers Drylake Runway 23 at NASA's Dryden...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Edwards Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to... More
Altus II aircraft flying over southern California desert
The San Gabriel range is visible as the the remotely piloted Altus II flies over Southern California's high desert. The Altus II was flown as a performance and propulsion testbed for future high-altitude scienc... More
Miscellaneous: EC03-0163-15 Artists Bob and Louise...
EC03-0163-15 Artists Bob and Louise McCall in their Paradise Valley, Arizona studio, in front of ''Celebrating One Hundred Years of Powered Flight 1903-2003.'' The mural was created to celebrate the achievement... More
A convoy of specialized support vehicles follow the Space Shuttle Ende...
A convoy of specialized support vehicles follow the Space Shuttle Endeavour as it is towed up a taxiway at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, California, after landing on May 1, 200... More
LASRE pod being mated to SR-71. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
The Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment is mounted on a NASA SR-71 aircraft Aug. 26, at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, in preparation for the experiment's first flight, which took pl... More
NASA Orion Crew Module, Dryden history gallery
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center technicians accompany NASA's first Orion full-scale abort flight test crew module as it heads to it's new home. April 1, 2008 NASA / Tony Landis ED08-0085-111 NASA Identifier:... More
The X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booste...
The first of three X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket recently underwent combined systems testing while mounted to NASA's NB-52B carrier aircraft at the Dryden Flight Res... More
LSRA in flight, NASA history collection
A NASA CV-990, modified as a Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA), in flight over NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, for a test of the space shuttle landing gear system. The space sh... More
Pathfinder aircraft taking off - setting new solar powered altitude re...
The Pathfinder solar-powered remotely piloted aircraft climbs to a record-setting altitude of 50,567 feet during a flight Sept. 11, 1995, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The flight... More
Pegasus Rocket Wing and PHYSX Glove Being Prepared for Stress Loads Te...
A technician adjusts the Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Project's Pegasus rocket wing with attached PHYSX glove before a loads-test at Scaled Composites, Inc., in Mojave, California, in January 1997. For... More
Hyper-X Vehicle Model - Top Rear View
This aft-quarter model view of NASA's X-43A "Hyper-X" or Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle shows its sleek, geometric design. The X-43A was developed to flight test a dual-mode ramjet/scramjet propulsion system a... More
Enterprise - Free Flight after Separation from 747
The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise flies free after being released from NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) during one of five free flights carried out at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, C... More
F-18 SRA during flight. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F-18 jet fighter, is seen here during a recent research flight. The former Navy aircraft is being flown by ... More
F-18 HARV smoke and tuft vortex flow visualization along leading edge ...
Flow visualization smoke marks vortex flows along the leading edge extension on an F/A-18 flown by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, in its High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) program. T... More
X-36 in Flight over Mojave Desert - Public domain map
28-percent scale representation of a theoretical advanced fighter aircraft. The Boeing Phantom Works (formerly McDonnell Douglas) in St. Louis, Missouri, built two of the vehicles in a cooperative agreement wit... More
F-18 HARV in flight refueling with KC-135 tanker
A thrust vectoring system can be seen mounted on the aft end of this NASA F-18 research aircraft at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, during an inflight refueling stop with a KC-135A (Seri... More
Hyper-X Vehicle Model - Side View
A side-view of an early desk-top model of NASA's X-43A "Hyper-X," or Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle, which has been developed to flight test a dual-mode ramjet/scramjet propulsion system at speeds from Mach 7 ... More
X-36 Being Prepared on Lakebed for First Flight
Lit by the rays of the morning sunrise on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, a technician prepares the remotely-piloted X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Researc... More
NASA Active Aeroelastic Wing (AAW), Dryden history gallery
EC03-0174-1 The Active Aeroelastic Wing F-18 research aircraft (AAW) is shadowed by another F-18 in formation during a flyover of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Read Project Description June 25, 2003 N... More
NASA L-1011 Tristar, Dryden history gallery
EC97-44077-3 Bearing the logos of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Orbital Sciences Corporation, Orbital's L-1011 Tristar lifts off the Meadows Field Runway at Bakersfield, California, on i... More
Aeronautical Research Engineer Milt Thompson computing data
Milton O. Thompson was hired as an engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' High-Speed Flight Station (later renamed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Dryden Flight Researc... More
NASA Aircraft Fleet 1960s, Dryden history gallery
ECN-2359 The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from left to right are the X-24A, M2-F3 and the HL-10. The lifti... More
NASA A-5A Vigilante, Dryden history gallery
ECN-231 A North American Aviation A-5A Vigilante (Navy serial number 147858/NASA tail number 858) arrived from the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD, on December 19, 1962, at the NASA Flight Research Ce... More
R4D Parked on Ramp, NASA history collection
This Photograph taken in 1956 shows the first of three R4D Skytrain aircraft on the ramp behind the NACA High-Speed Flight Station. NACA stood for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which evolved ... More
Pilot Neil Armstrong in the X-15 #1 cockpit
NASA pilot Neil Armstrong is seen here in the cockpit of the X-15 ship #1 (56-6670) after a research flight. A U.S. Navy pilot in the Korean War who flew 78 combat missions in F9F-2 jet fighters and who was awa... More
HL-10 landing on lakebed with F-104 chase aircraft
In this photo, the HL-10 has touched down on its main landing gear, while the pilot was holding the nose up to slow the vehicle. The F-104 in the background was used as a chase plane. Its pilot would give the H... More
HL-10 Subsonic Control Surface Configuration
ECN-1463 HL-10 is shown on the lakebed with its subsonic control surface configuration. The unusual shapes of the lifting bodies, as well as the demands of flying a re-entry shape to comparative low-speed landi... More
Three Lifting Bodies on Lakebed (X-24A, M2-F3, HL-10)
The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from left to right are the X-24A, M2-F3 and the HL-10.The lifting body ai... More
HL-10 in flight after launch. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
The HL-10 Lifting Body is seen here in powered flight shortly after launch from the B-52 mothership. When HL-10 powered flights began on October 23, 1968, the vehicle used the same basic XLR-11 rocket engine th... More
M2-F3 In-flight Launch from B-52
This photo shows the M2-F3 Lifting Body being launched from NASA's B-52 mothership at the NASA Flight Research Center (FRC--now the Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California. A fleet of lifting bodies... More
NASA X-24, Dryden history gallery
ECN-2359 The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from left to right are the X-24A, M2-F3 and the HL-10. The lifti... More
F-8 DFBW in flight. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire aircraft in flight. The computer-controlled flight systems pioneered by the F-8 DFBW created a revolution in aircraft design. The F-117A, X-29, X-31, and many other aircraft have relied ... More
Shuttle and 747 in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Photos of the model of the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), shuttle and 747
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Photos of the model of the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), shuttle and 747
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
NASA DFRC Mate-Demate Device (MDD) full side view looking north, showi...
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographer: Tom Tschida Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to t... More
Dusk and dawn shots of the shuttle and 747 in Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Photos of the model of the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), shuttle and 747
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
X-29 on Runway, NASA history collection
This photo shows the No. 2 X-29 technology demonstrator aircraft as it lifts off from the runway at Edwards Air Force base on a 1989 test flight. The X-29 was flown by NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facilit... More
STS-40 Landing at Edwards. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
Space Shuttle Columbia nears its touchdown on Runway 22 at Edwards, California, at 8:39 a.m., 14 June 1991, as the STS-40 life sciences mission comes to an end at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (la... More
SR-71B - in Flight with F-18 Chase Aircraft - View from Air Force Tank...
NASA 831, an SR-71B operated by the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, cruises over the Mojave Desert with an F/A-18 Hornet flying safety chase. They were photographed on a 1996 mission from an... More
STS-68 on Runway with 747 SCA/Columbia Ferry Flyby
Systems Division, Downey, California. Rockwell's Rocketdyne Division (now part of Boeing) builds the three main engines, and Thiokol, Brigham City, Utah, makes the solid rocket booster motors. Martin Marietta C... More
X-38 on B-52 Wing Pylon - View from Observation Window
A unique, close-up view of the X-38 under the wing of NASA's B-52 mothership prior to launch of the lifting-body research vehicle. The photo was taken from the observation window of the B-52 bomber as it banked... More
Altus II high altitude science aircraft decending toward U.S. Navy's P...
Altus II descends towards the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii. The Altus II was flown as a performance and propulsion testbed for future high-altitude science platform aircraft under NASA's... More
X-38: Artist Concept of Re-Entering Earth's Atmosphere
This is an artist's depiction of NASA's proposed Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) re-entering the earth's atmosphere. A team of NASA researchers began free flight tests of the X-38, a technology demonstrator for the C... More
Tu-144LL SST Flying Laboratory in Flight
pressures, angle of attack, and sideslip angles with increased accuracy. Two NASA pilots, Robert Rivers of Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, and Gordon Fullerton from Dryden Flight Research Center, Ed... More
Perseus B Taxi Tests in Preparation for a New Series of Flight Tests
The Perseus B remotely piloted aircraft on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California at the conclusion of a development flight at NASA's Dryden flight Research Center. The Perseus B is the latest of thre... More
Altus aircraft on runway, NASA history collection
The remotely piloted Altus aircraft flew several developmental test flights from Rogers Dry Lake adjacent to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., in 1996. The Altus--the word is Latin for "hig... More
Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE) first flight takeoff
A NASA SR-71 takes off Oct. 31, making its first flight as part of the NASA/Rocketdyne/Lockheed Martin Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE) at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The... More
Ignition of the Pegasus rocket moments after release from the B-52 sig...
The first X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket were carried aloft by NASA's NB-52B carrier aircraft from Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on... More
LASRE pod being mated to SR-71. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
These workers are performing a fit-check of the Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE) on the back of a NASA Dryden Flight Research Center SR-71. The fit-check occurred Feb. 15, 1996, at Lockheed Martin Skun... More
NASA 12/3/07, Dryden history gallery
The above-the-fuselage engine and V-tail distinguish one of NASA's two Global Hawk unmanned aircraft parked on the ramp at the Dryden Flight Research Center. December 3, 2007 NASA Photo / Tony Landis ED07-0244-... More
Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR) mission control room monitors
This photo shows monitors in a Dryden Flight Research Center mission control room of the Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR). All aspects of a research mission are monitored from one of two of these control ... More
With the modified F/A-18 showcased behind him, Kevin Petersen, directo...
With the modified F/A-18 showcased behind him, Kevin Petersen, director of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, addressed the audience attending the rollout ceremonies for the Active Aeroelastic Wing flight rese... More
Altus I aircraft in flight, retracting landing gear after takeoff
The landing gear of the remotely piloted Altus I aircraft retracts into the fuselage after takeoff from Rogers Dry Lake adjacent to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. The short series of test... More
F-16XL ship #1 and SR-71 in formation flight studying the characterist...
The single-seat F-16XL, NASA 849, joins up with an SR-71A, NASA 844, as crews set up for one of the flights in the recent sonic boom research program conducted by the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Cal... More
DC-8 Airborne Laboratory in flight over NASA Dryden center with SCA 74...
The DC-8 aircraft is seen making a banking turn high above the NASA Dryden ramp. This view of the DC-8's left side reveals some of the modifications necessary for particular on-board experiments. To the right o... More
F-16XL ship #1 in flight over desert
NASA's single-seat F-16XL on a research flight over the desert near the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The aircraft was most recently used in the Cranked-Arrow Wing Aerodynamics Project (CA... More
F-15 HiDEC in flight over Mojave desert
NASA's F-15 HIDEC (Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control) research aircraft cruises over California's Mojave Desert at sunset on a flight out of the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. Th... More
DARPA, U.S. Air Force, Boeing X-45A UCAV at NASA Dryden
DARPA, U.S. Air Force, Boeing X-45A UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle) at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. NASA Identifier: NIX-EC01-0292-9
With the modified F/A-18 showcased behind him, Kevin Petersen, directo...
With the modified F/A-18 showcased behind him, Kevin Petersen, director of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, addressed the audience attending the rollout ceremonies for the Active Aeroelastic Wing flight rese... More
X-31 Loaded in C-5 Cargo Bay. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
The X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Technology Demonstrator Aircraft, based at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, is secured inside the fuselage of an Air Force Re... More
STS-92 - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)
One of NASA's two modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is bathed in the morning Sun at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California. The modified jumbo jetliners are used to ferry the Spa... More
NASA Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF), Dryden history gallery
EC01-0267-4 Flying an Autonomous Formation Flight mission, two F/A-18's from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, gain altitude near Rogers Dry Lake. The Systems Research Aircraft (tail ... More
F-18 HARV instrumentation modifications
Pressure transducers are located in the tiny holes visible on the engine inlet lip of NASA's F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV). The sensors in this photo are located at the bottom of the inlet duct entran... More
F-18 SRA closeup of nose cap showing new flush air data system sensor ...
The small numbers on the nose of this F-18 aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, show the locations of 11 tiny holes which are an integral part of a new air data system installe... More
NASA X-29, Dryden history gallery
EC90-357-7This front view of the X-29 research aircraft shows the plane lit by a full moon at the edge of day on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility later redesignated the D... More
NASA SR-71 LASRE, Dryden history gallery
EC97-44295-114 A NASA SR-71 refuels with an Edwards Air Force Base KC-135 during the first flight of the NASA/Rocketdyne/ Lockheed Martin Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment LASRE. The flight took place Oct. 31 a... More
F-15B #837 Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS)
Project Description: NASA's two F-15 research aircraft don't get a lot of flight hours, and it's even rarer to have them in the air together on the same mission. But research pilots Jim Smolka and Craig Bomben ... More
NASA Hyper III, Dryden history gallery
ECN-2301 The Hyper III was a low-cost test vehicle for an advanced lifting-body shape. Like the earlier M2-F1, it was a ''homebuilt'' research aircraft, i.e., built at the Flight Research Center (FRC), later re... More
Pathfinder-Plus on flight over Hawaii
Pathfinder-Plus on flight over Hawaii. Pathfinder was a remotely controlled, solar-powered flying wing, designed and built as a proof-of-concept vehicle for a much larger aircraft capable of flying at extremely... More
View from forward center of NASA DFRC Mate-Demate Device (MDD) looking...
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographer: Tom Tschida Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to t... More
STS-126 Endeavour in Mate-Demate Device (MDD), rainbow on left
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Shuttle and 747 in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
View from Helicopter of STS-128 Discovery in Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
DAST in Flight, NASA history collection
The modified BQM-34 Firebee II drone with Aeroelastic Research Wing (ARW-1), a supercritical airfoil, during a 1980 research flight. The remotely-piloted vehicle, which was air launched from NASA's NB-52B mothe... More
STS-36 Shuttle in Mate-Demate Device (MDD) Close-up
A close-up, front view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD) as technicians work to prepare the orbiter for its ferry flight from NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later, the ... More
Shuttle Atlantis Returning to Kennedy Space Center after 10 Month Refu...
payload of 65,000 pounds into orbit. The payload bay is 60 feet long and 15 feet in diameter. Each main engine is capable of producing a sea level thrust of 375,000 pounds and a vacuum (orbital) thrust of 470,0... More
NASA X-15, Dryden history gallery
EC95-43258-1 This photo shows workers installing the full-scale mock-up of X-15 #3 at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, in September 1995. The mock-up is now on a pedestal outside the... More
SR-71A - in Flight over Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's SR-71A, tail number 844, banks away over the Sierra Nevada mountains after air refueling from a USAF tanker during a 1997 flight. Two SR-71 aircraft have been used by NASA a... More
Quarter-scale Model of Solar-powered Centurion Ultra-high-altitude Fly...
the Helios Prototype to carry a regenerative fuel-cell-based energy storage system that will enable flight at night, while still meeting the performance goals originally established for the Centurion. With the ... More
Kevin L. Petersen, NASA history collection
Kevin L. Petersen is Director of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, a position he assumed Feb. 8, 1999. He had served as acting Director of Dryden since Aug. 1, 1998. As NASA's primary... More