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Researcher Adjusts DACOM on DC-8
Researcher Adjusts DACOM on DC-8

Glen Sachse of NASA’s Langley Research Center adjusts the Differential Absorption CO Measurement, or DACOM, instrument developed at Langley after…

Tracking Antarctica’s Sea Ice, Glaciers, and Ice Sheets
Tracking Antarctica’s Sea Ice, Glaciers, and Ice Sheets

The interior of NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory is loaded with instruments bound for the Antarctic during the fall 2009 Operation…

Manny Antimisiaris Directs Flight Path for Operation IceBridge 2010
Manny Antimisiaris Directs Flight Path for Operation IceBridge 2010

NASA flight navigator Manny Antimisiaris directed the exact flight path of NASA’s DC-8 airborne science laboratory during NASA’s 2010 IceBridge…

A Burst of Spring
A Burst of Spring

Spring has sprung on Mars, bringing with it the disappearance of carbon dioxide ice (dry ice) that covers north polar…

LVIS Instrumentation Rack Installed in DC-8
LVIS Instrumentation Rack Installed in DC-8

NASA Dryden aircraft technician Don Bailes is assisted by two mission scientists in positioning the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor’s instrumentation…

Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor Installed in DC-8
Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor Installed in DC-8

The Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or LVIS, instrumentation rack awaits loading on NASA’s DC-8 airborne science laboratory at Building 703…

DC-8 IceBridge Team Reviews Data
DC-8 IceBridge Team Reviews Data

NASA flight navigator Manny Antimisiaris reviewed data with URS Corp. senior research scientist John Sonntag while scientists and flight crew…

Airborne Topographic Mapper Function Check
Airborne Topographic Mapper Function Check

Senior research scientist John Sonntag of URS Corp. at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia checks out the functioning of…

Flight Research Pilots, retired
Flight Research Pilots, retired

Fred W. Haise Jr. was a research pilot and an astronaut for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1959…

STS-125 Crew Visits the Stock Exchange
STS-125 Crew Visits the Stock Exchange

NASA astronauts Scott Altman and Mike Massimino of the STS-125 mission visit the New York Stock Exchange to support the…