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3 Min Read NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits The 15-foot Structural Wing Experiment Evaluating Truss-bracing test article is fully installed in the Flight Loads Laboratory at…
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The Flight Dynamics Research Facility, located at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is the agency’s first major wind tunnel built in more than 40 years.NASA/Mark Knopp Media are…
From left to right: Casey Swails, NASA deputy associate administrator; Mike Waller, vice president of BL Harbert International Federal Division; Edward C. Forst, administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration;…
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William “Bill” Swann, one of the first-generation pilots at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory (predecessor to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland), prepares to board…
3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Credit: National Institute of Aerospace NASA’s next Gateways to Blue Skies competition invites collegiate teams to imagine innovative new ways…
4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA has selected four university teams to help the agency transform the future of aviation through projects ranging from high-supersonic…
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