EDWARDS, CA
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Gets New Web Site:
On Tuesday afternoon, November 30, Dryden's web visitors will be redirected to its new location on the NASA Portal at http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden. The Portal offers a consistent "look and feel" across NASA web sites.
“Like a sonic boom rolling across the Mojave Desert, the drum beat of cutting-edge flight research makes a profound statement as it advances the aerospace state of the art. Everything from Space Shuttles to solar planes graces the skies over NASA Dryden.”
NASA'S X-43A Scramjet Breaks Speed Record- November 16, 2004
NASA's X-43A research vehicle made history this month by demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. Preliminary data from the scramjet-powered research vehicle show its revolutionary engine worked successfully at nearly Mach 9.8, or 7,000 mph, as it flew at about 110,000 feet. The flight took place in restricted airspace over the Pacific Ocean northwest of Los Angeles. The flight was the last and fastest of three unpiloted flight tests in NASA's Hyper-X Program. The program's purpose is to explore an alternative to rocket power for space access vehicles.
Congressional Record X-43 Language – Thursday, November 18th
Congressman William M. Thomas introduced remarks into the Congressional Record to underscore the significance of the flight.
Los Angeles Times X-43 Editorial “Here Be Dragons” Sunday November 21st
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-scram21nov21,1,1460505.story
New Explorers Energized By Visit to Dryden
Astronaut candidates from NASA's newest class visited the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center on Nov. 17, 2004. The class includes pilots, mission specialists and three new mission specialist-educator astronauts, teachers who will help ensure there will always be a next generation primed to explore. These new explorers will be the first astronauts focused from the very beginning on realizing NASA's Vision for Space Exploration.
NASA Dryden F-15B Jet to Support Space Shuttle Return to Flight Efforts
The F-15B Research Testbed aircraft is currently being readied to support NASA's Space Shuttle return to flight effort. A series of experiments known as LIFT (Lifting Insulating Foam Trajectory) will be flown to help researchers understand how small (from 1 to 5 inches) pieces of insulating foam behave at high speed by simulating shuttle launch conditions. The flights are scheduled to continue through early February 2005.
Flight Loads Laboratory Starts 7-Month Navy Job on E-2C Hawkeye
A U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye recently arrived for tests in the Dryden Loads Laboratory, where loads equations will be developed to assist the Navy in determining how the aircraft will respond to the added weight of planned modifications. To complete this task, Loads Laboratory researchers will use a data-recovery system connected to instrumentation on the airplane.
Why We Explore: A Series of Essays by NASA’s Chief Historian Steven J. Dick
“Knowns and Unknowns in Exploration: Then and Now” is the 4th in a series of essays available on-line at: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/Why_We_04.html
Cam Martin
Office of External Affairs and Government Relations
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Edwards CA 93523-0273
cam.martin@nasa.gov
office (661) 276-3448
cell (661) 810-8482
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