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Crew Module Gets a Paint Job
Crew Module Gets a Paint Job

A NASA technician painted NASA’s first Orion full-scale abort flight test crew module.

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Centurion

As crewmen jog and cycle alongside, a battery-powered, quarter-scale prototype of the remotely-piloted Centurion flying wing rolls across the El…

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Centurion

Trailed by a van carrying the remote pilot and observers, a radio-controlled quarter-scale model of the Centurion solar-electric flying wing…

Flight Test Crew Module Awaits Avionics and Other Equipment Installation
Flight Test Crew Module Awaits Avionics and Other Equipment Installation

Sporting a fresh paint job, NASA’s first Orion full-scale abort flight test crew module awaited avionics and other equipment installation.

Air Force Pilots Apt, Kincheloe with AFFRC Flight Director Hanes and X-2 Rocket Plane
Air Force Pilots Apt, Kincheloe with AFFRC Flight Director Hanes and X-2 Rocket Plane

Air Force X-2 pilots Capt. Milburn “Mel” Apt and Capt. Iven Kincheloe flank Col. Horace Hanes, AFFTC flight test director,…

C-17 Takeoff with Orion Crew Module Aboard
C-17 Takeoff with Orion Crew Module Aboard

An Air Force C-17 operated by the Mississippi Air National Guard climbed into the summer sky from Edwards Air Force…

B-52 Mothership Carries X-43A Aloft
B-52 Mothership Carries X-43A Aloft

Hitching a ride on the same B-52 mother ship that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA’s X-43A…

Centurion
Centurion

Silhouetted under a bright blue sky, a quarter-scale model of the Centurion solar-powered flying wing shows off its internal rib…

Centurion
Centurion

A close-up view of the 14 wide-bladed propellers and electric motors on the Centurion solar-powered, remotely piloted flying wing. This…

Centurion
Centurion

The Centurion solar-powered, remotely-piloted flying wing rests on the sun-baked surface of Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to NASA’s Dryden Flight…