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Three-Foot-Long Model of X-43A Vehicle/Booster Combination
Three-Foot-Long Model of X-43A Vehicle/Booster Combination

The configuration of the X-43A Hypersonic Experimental Research Vehicle, or Hyper-X, attached to a Pegasus launch vehicle is displayed in…

X-38 in DFRC Hangar
X-38 in DFRC Hangar

The X-38 lifting body research vehicle is shown here suspended in a hangar at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in…

X-38 Post-Flight Checklists Reviewed
X-38 Post-Flight Checklists Reviewed

NASA engineer Wayne Peterson from the Johnson Space Center reviews postflight checklists following a spectacular flight of the X-38 prototype…

X-38 Model Glides to Earth
X-38 Model Glides to Earth

A 4-foot-long model of NASA’s X-38, an experimental crew return vehicle, glides to Earth after being dropped from a Cessna…

Four-Foot Model used to Test the X-38 Ram-Air Parafoil Landing System
Four-Foot Model used to Test the X-38 Ram-Air Parafoil Landing System

This sequence of photographs shows a 4-foot-long model of NASA’s X-38 gliding to Earth after being dropped from a Cessna…

Sunset with X-48B on Rogers Dry Lake
Sunset with X-48B on Rogers Dry Lake

Boeing’s X-48B Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator showed off its unique lines at sunset on Rogers Dry Lake adjacent to…

Water Detected at High Latitudes on the Moon
Water Detected at High Latitudes on the Moon

NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrument on the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 mission, took this image of Earth’s moon.…

Desert Layover for Shuttle Discovery
Desert Layover for Shuttle Discovery

Space shuttle Discovery is parked within the Mate-Demate Device gantry at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Cener prior to beginning turnaround…

STS-128
STS-128

Space shuttle Discovery and its modified 747 carrier aircraft lift off from Edwards Air Force Base early in the morning…

STS-128
STS-128

NASA’s modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the shuttle Discovery securely mounted on top soars into the morning sky after…