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Spacewedge
Spacewedge

One of the Spacewedge remotely-piloted research vehicles in flight under a steerable parafoil during 1995 research flights conducted by NASA’s…

Spacewedge
Spacewedge

The Spacewedge subscale research model glides in toward a touchdown at a California City landing zone during 1992 flight tests…

Spacewedge
Spacewedge

A Rans S-12 remotely piloted “mothership” takes off from a lakebed runway carrying a Spacewedge research model during 1992 flight…

Spacewedge
Spacewedge

The instrumentation and equipment is seen inside the Spacewedge #3, a remotely-piloted research vehicle flown at the Dryden Flight Research…

Dryden People
Dryden People

Electronics technician Joe Ciganek operated and maintained the SR-71 simulator while it was at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center.

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

Different approaches to building a research craft to simulate a spacecraft able to land on the ground instead of splashing…

Flight Loads Laboratory
Flight Loads Laboratory

Carbon-Carbon Control Surface in heating and loading test configuration.

Close of up the X-24A XLR-11 Rocket Engine
Close of up the X-24A XLR-11 Rocket Engine

Close-up view of the XLR-11 rocket engine mounted in the X-24A lifting body research vehicle.

Control Room In Mojave Monitors Proteus
Control Room In Mojave Monitors Proteus

Proteus DSA control room in Mojave, CA.