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The M2-F1: An Unlikely Forerunner to the Space Shuttle
The M2-F1: An Unlikely Forerunner to the Space Shuttle

The planned retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2010 will bring to a close an era that opened in…

Tehachapi High Grad Awarded NASA Dryden Scholarship
Tehachapi High Grad Awarded NASA Dryden Scholarship

Jill Pestana, a graduate of the Class of 2008 at Tehachapi High School, has been selected by the NASA Dryden…

The Last Rocketeer: Pink Boots and Yellow Daisies
The Last Rocketeer: Pink Boots and Yellow Daisies

By Peter W. Merlin Historian, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center As the morning of Sept. 23, 1975 dawned over the…

Management Appointments Announced at NASA Dryden
Management Appointments Announced at NASA Dryden

EDWARDS, Calif. – Kevin L. Petersen, Director of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, recently announced…

NASA Partners With Forest Service On Air Tanker Safety Study
NASA Partners With Forest Service On Air Tanker Safety Study

EDWARDS, Calif. – NASA is partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service on a project to examine the…

NASA Awards Global Hawk Support Contract to L-3 Communications
NASA Awards Global Hawk Support Contract to L-3 Communications

EDWARDS, Calif. – NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a multi-year contract to L-3 Communications Corporation’s Communications Systems West…

NASA Reinstalls Main Mirror in SOFIA Airborne Observatory
NASA Reinstalls Main Mirror in SOFIA Airborne Observatory

PALMDALE, Calif. – Engineers and technicians from NASA, the German Space Agency and the Deutsches SOFIA Institut recently reinstalled the…

Scientists Selected for New Airborne Eye on the Universe
Scientists Selected for New Airborne Eye on the Universe

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – On behalf of NASA, the Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, Md., has selected three astronomers to…

Final Flight of the X-15 Left a Legacy of Success
Final Flight of the X-15 Left a Legacy of Success

By Peter W. Merlin Historian, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center If residents of Western Nevada had looked high up in…

David McBride Appointed Deputy Director at NASA Dryden
David McBride Appointed Deputy Director at NASA Dryden

Edwards, Calif. –David D. McBride has been appointed deputy director of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force…