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Guinness Recognizes X-43A World Speed Record
Guinness Recognizes X-43A World Speed Record

Guinness World Records formally recognized the NASA X-43A Hyper-X world speed record for an aircraft propelled by an air-breathing engine…

Centurion
Centurion

As sunlight breaks over Southern California’s El Mirage Dry Lake, Crew members prepare a battery-powered quarter-scale prototype of the remotely-piloted…

Centurion
Centurion

The Centurion solar-electric flying wing, one of several remotely piloted aircraft being developed under NASA’s Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor…

Centurion
Centurion

Framed by wispy contrails left by passing jets high above, a quarter-scale model of the Centurion solar-electric flying wing shows…

Fit-Check for the 1,200-lb Steel Pylon on B-52
Fit-Check for the 1,200-lb Steel Pylon on B-52

Tom McMullen, chief of Dryden’s Experimental Fabrication Shop, adjusted the new pylon for NASA’s X-38 Crew Return Vehicle during a…

B-52 with F/A-18 Chase Before X-43A Air Launch
B-52 with F/A-18 Chase Before X-43A Air Launch

The first X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket were carried aloft by NASA’s NB-52B carrier aircraft…

Third X-43A Undergoes Captive-Carry Flight
Third X-43A Undergoes Captive-Carry Flight

Attached to the same B-52B mothership that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA’s third X-43A performed a…

Orion LAS AFT NASA Logo
Orion LAS AFT NASA Logo

NASA Dryden visual communications manager Steve Lighthill smoothed out a NASA logo decal after affixing it to the Orion test…

AirSAR: Rain Forest in Costa Rica
AirSAR: Rain Forest in Costa Rica

A plant photographed in the La Selva region of the Costa Rican rain forest as part of NASA’s AirSAR 2004…