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Variable Density Tunnel
Variable Density Tunnel

This image, taken on February 3, 1922, is of the Variable Density Tunnel.

Lander Trench Dug by Opportunity
Lander Trench Dug by Opportunity

On March 20, 2004, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used a wheel to dig a trench revealing subsurface material beside…

Sounding Rockets Launch Into an Aurora
Sounding Rockets Launch Into an Aurora

To study the interaction of solar winds and Earth’s atmosphere, sounding rockets carrying university-developed experiments were launched into auroras in…

F-86 Lowered into Full Scale Tunnel at Ames
F-86 Lowered into Full Scale Tunnel at Ames

An F-86 aircraft is lowered into the 40 x 80 Foot Full Scale Wind Tunnel at the NACA Ames Aeronautical…

Dedication Day – Visitors to the AERL
Dedication Day – Visitors to the AERL

Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, on dedication day.

First Meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
First Meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

The first meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) on March 3, 1915.

Behold, the World’s Largest Wind Tunnel!
Behold, the World’s Largest Wind Tunnel!

The scene is NACA’s 40 x 80 foot wind tunnel at Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California, which when it…

Where Are They Now: Space Shuttle Prototype Enterprise
Where Are They Now: Space Shuttle Prototype Enterprise

After five years of planning, assembly, and systems testing, the Space Shuttle approach and landing tests (ALT) began at Dryden.…

B-720
B-720

In 1984 NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) teamed-up in a unique flight experiment called…

The Shapers
The Shapers

Two masters of their craft are caught at work shaping Saturn’s rings. Pandora (upper right) sculpts the F ring, as…