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Measuring Clouds and Aerosols From the Space Station
Measuring Clouds and Aerosols From the Space Station

NASA’s Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) instrument, launching to the International Space Station, will investigate the layers and composition of clouds…

Wish Upon a Star
Wish Upon a Star

What’s that bright point of light in the outer A ring? It’s a star, bright enough to be visible through…

NASA Contribution: Wind Tunnels
NASA Contribution: Wind Tunnels

Aircraft, spacecraft, racing cars, 18-wheelers – wind tunnels are still a critical tool for testing and proving aerodynamic performance. NASA…

NASA Contribution: Digital Fly-by-Wire
NASA Contribution: Digital Fly-by-Wire

During the 1960s and 1970s, NASA helped develop and flight test the digital “fly-by-wire” system, which replaced heavier and less…

NASA Contribution: Area Rule
NASA Contribution: Area Rule

In the 1950s, NASA scientist Richard Whitcomb discovered several fundamental solutions to key aerodynamics challenges. One of the most revolutionary…

NASA Contribution: Wind Tunnels
NASA Contribution: Wind Tunnels

As early as the 1930s, wind tunnels built and operated by NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for on Aeronautics,…

NASA Contribution: Glass Cockpits
NASA Contribution: Glass Cockpits

Ever see an old airplane cockpit and how it was chock-full of dials and gauges and things that spun around?…

CATS, Lasers and Space
CATS, Lasers and Space

Launching Jan. 6, 2015, on SpaceX, the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, or CATS, is a lidar remote-sensing instrument that will extend…

C-47
C-47

The C-47/R4D Skytrain was one of the work horses for NACA and NASA at Edwards AFB spanning a time from…