Lancaster Jethawks honored retired astronauts Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton (right, waving), pilots Fitz Fulton and Tom McMurtry at Aerospace Night.
NASA's Gulfstream III research aircraft completed a brief Alaskan volcanoes radar imaging mission Aug. 1-4; now the lengthy data analysis work begins.
Scientists conducted airborne validation of four laser techniques for measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide aboard NASA’s DC-8 flying lab in late July.
NASA has selected seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable rockets near the boundary of space.
Early in the space shuttle program, NASA Dryden F-104 jets were used to flight-test various advanced shuttle Thermal Protection System materials.
For the first time ever, NASA's two highly modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft briefly flew in formation over the Edwards Air Force Base.
More Edwards AFB residents needed to augment 50 volunteers who have already registered for this fall's sonic boom research study at NASA Dryden.
NASA Dryden's Employee Exchange Council has presented its 2011 Thomas W. Finch Memorial Scholarship Award to Desert High grad Emily G. Wright.
Synthetic-aperture radar imaging volcanoes in the Cascade Range over California, Oregon and Washington and over the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
NASA Dryden nurse practitioner Katie Kirk has been honored with a NASA Space Flight Awareness award for her support of NASA's space shuttle program.
Aircraft-mounted scanner operates like a digital camera with special filters to detect light energy at visible, infrared and thermal wavelengths.
NASA's F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire research aircraft provided flight-test data to resolve the space shuttle's pilot-induced oscillation problem.
Space shuttle Atlantis' landing at the Kennedy Space Center early Thursday July 21 brought NASA's three decades of space shuttle missions to an end.
While orbiting over the high desert July 16, the crew of space shuttle Atlantis gave tribute to NASA Dryden's communications staff for their support.
The Approach and Landing Tests in 1977 evaluated the shuttle orbiter’s aerodynamic flight control systems and subsonic handling characteristics.
Precision landings by the X-24B lifting body in 1975 led to the decision to not include jet engines on the space shuttles to aid landing approaches.
Almost 30 college students are participating in the 2011 Student Airborne Research Program Earth science flights on NASA's DC-8 June 27-30.
About 200 middle-school students applied science, technology, engineering and math at a NASA Summer of Innovation Rocketry Camp in Lamont, Calif.
NASA’s SOFIA observatory viewed the dwarf planet Pluto as it passed in front of a distant star when Pluto's shadow fell on Earth June 23.
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory complete flight-testing of the next Mars rover’s landing radar on an F/A-18.