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Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
Dryden's Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale offers the expanded space needed to manage the Center's airborne science missions and research platforms.
This Week in Dryden's History
A collection of historical facts and events from Dryden's last 50 years.
Dryden Tours Cancelled
Due to budgetary constraints, group and individual tours of Dryden Flight Research Center have been cancelled effective Dec. 16, 2011.
DFRC Severe Weather Instructions
Employee procedures for determining if Dryden is open for a normal workday during severe weather conditions.
Dryden News and Features
News and Features
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Neil Armstrong: 'Dedicated Enough to Dare Greatly'
Retired NASA astronaut and research pilot Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon in the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, dies at age 82.
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NASA's SOFIA to Embark on New Cycle of Science
The SOFIA observatory set to begin its first full cycle of 46 astronomical science flights over 13 months from November 2012 through December 2013.
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Dryden Hosts Social Media for Endeavour Arrival
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center is inviting 40 of its social media followers to a "NASA Social" Sept. 19–20 to herald shuttle Endeavour's return.
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Dryden Employees Recognized at NASA Honor Awards
Twenty-six outstanding employees and six project teams were honored at the annual NASA Honor Awards ceremonies Aug. 23 at NASA Dryden.
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NASA Selects Two Technologies For Suborbital Tests
Flight Opportunities Program selects new technologies for suborbital flights to test the payloads' functionality before deployment on future missions.
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Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments
NASA's HS3 mission will be studying hurricanes in late summer with two high-altitude, long-duration Global Hawks each carrying different instruments.
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NASA ER-2 Collects Perseids Meteor Shower Dust
NASA's ER-2 is using underwing Large Area Collectors to collect cosmic dust during the Perseids meteor shower the second week of August.
Dryden Spotlight
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Research Update
Current flight research projects and programs being flown at Dryden Flight Research Center.
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NASA Dryden FY2011
Citizen ReportNASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has issued its Citizen Report for fiscal year 2011, outlining the center's work and economic impact on the local community during the year.
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SOFIA
NASA is developing the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy - or SOFIA - as a world-class airborne observatory that will complement the Hubble, Spitzer, Herschel and James Webb space telescopes and major Earth-based telescopes.
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NASA Dryden and the Space Shuttles
Although most followers of NASA's Space Shuttle Program associate the shuttles with NASA's space-oriented field centers, major contributions to the shuttles' development occurred at NASA's four research field centers. Learn about some of NASA Dryden's contributions to space shuttle development and support in this series of historical articles
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X-15 Interactive Feature
The sensational, iconic, and groundbreaking X-15 hypersonic research aircraft extended flight to the edge of space during the 1950s and 1960s.
X-Press Publications
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X-Press: NASA 747 SCA Delivers History
As the awe-inspiring 30-year Space Shuttle Program comes to a close, a set of flights added to its spectacular history.
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X-Press: Shuttle Tribute
Dryden played an important role in the shuttle program from its earliest stages. The space shuttle prototype Enterprise was flown at the center in a 1977 series of flight tests that evaluated glide and landing characteristics of the 100-ton vehicles.
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Aerovations
Expanding on initiatives of the former Innovative Partnerships Program, new opportunities are nurturing innovations inside and outside of NASA.
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Multimedia
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Aircraft Imagery
Photos, video and graphics of Dryden aircraft