The X-56A has a busy control room with about a dozen people contributing to a mission.
This week in 1965, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center completed structural assembly of the Saturn V vibration test article, S-IU-500V.
Cheng Moua, X-56A project manager, prepares for an X-56A mission in the control room.
Mai Franz, Samson Truong and Alex Chin continue preparations for flight of the remotely piloted X-56A.
Peter Suh and Jeff Ouellette complete preflight checks of the remotely piloted X-56A.
Alex Chin, Samson Truong and Mei Franz prepare for a flight of the remotely piloted X-56A
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s spacecraft element, which consists of the observatory’s spacecraft bus and the sunshield, was put in…
The fully assembled TigerShark unmanned aircraft system, seen here near a hangar at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California,…
Daryl Ferguson attaches the TigerShark’s tail at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.
NASA’s Daryl Ferguson, mission commander and pilot, Steve Hamilton and Brad Petty unload the TigerShark at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research…
