
The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA’s DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign.

NASA’s DC-8 airborne science laboratory returned to NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center recently after an absence of more than two…

The Cuernos del Paine mountains in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, photographed during NASA’s AirSAR 2004 campaign.

DC-8 Airborne Laboratory in flight over snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountain range.

This multi-tipped engine exhaust sampling rake instrument was set up immediately behind the left inboard engine of NASA’s DC-8 flying…

Pre-Colombian archaeological ruins in the Costa Rican rain forest during NASA’s AirSAR 2004 Mesoamerica campaign.

A North American Aviation A-5A Vigilante (Navy serial number 147858/NASA tail number 858) arrived from the Naval Air Test Center,…

Andy Blua and Jeff Doughty of Dryden’s Experimental Fabrication Shop, along with B-52 Crew Chief Dan Bains and assistant Mark…

North American A-5A Vigilante cockpit control panel.

The X-38, a research vehicle built to help develop technology for an emergency Crew Return Vehicle (CRV), descended under its…