
Left to right: Richard C. Eldredge, Dale Reed, James O. Newman, and Bob McDonald with the mothership (top) and other…

Alma Warner (front) and Karen Estes use sophisticated computer software programming to calibrate a gyro package in the Avionics lab…

The M2-F1 lifting body, dubbed the “flying bathtub” by the media, was the precursor of a remarkable series of wingless…

The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…

Proteus in flight over mountains near Las Cruces, NM.

Jack McKay was one of the first pilots assigned to the X-15 flight research program at NASA’s Flight Research Center,…

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 sat on the Rogers Dry Lakebed at Muroc Air Force Base, CA in 1949.

Vance D. Brand portrait after being selected for the Apollo program.

The Kiel air data probe on the noseboom on the X-31 aircraft shows the orifices used to collect air pressure…