Aircraft, spacecraft, racing cars, 18-wheelers – wind tunnels are still a critical tool for testing and proving aerodynamic performance. NASA…
During the 1960s and 1970s, NASA helped develop and flight test the digital “fly-by-wire” system, which replaced heavier and less…
In the 1950s, NASA scientist Richard Whitcomb discovered several fundamental solutions to key aerodynamics challenges. One of the most revolutionary…
As early as the 1930s, wind tunnels built and operated by NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for on Aeronautics,…
Ever see an old airplane cockpit and how it was chock-full of dials and gauges and things that spun around?…
Launching Jan. 6, 2015, on SpaceX, the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, or CATS, is a lidar remote-sensing instrument that will extend…
The C-47/R4D Skytrain was one of the work horses for NACA and NASA at Edwards AFB spanning a time from…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory observed the sun starting 2015 with an enormous coronal hole near the South Pole.
The first generation X-1 aircraft changed aviation history in numerous ways, and not simply because they were the first aircraft…
NASA acquired the C-130B based at Dryden Flight Research Center in July of 1968. The aircraft was used by the…
