Edwards, Calif. – NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., supported projects and efforts across NASA’s four mission areas during 2008, furthering the agency’s overall ...

EDWARDS, Calif. — Kevin L. Petersen, director of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, announced he plans to retire from NASA effective April 3. A veteran aerospace engineer and manager with 38 years ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1976, NASA’s Flight Research Centre in Edwards, California, was ...

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) have completed the opening salvo of tow tests on their Dream Chaser Engineering Test Article (ETA) at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC). These opening test ...

Behind the sliding, sand-coloured doors of a vast hangar in the Californian desert, north of Los Angeles, the US space agency houses some of its cutting edge vehicles. But these vehicles are not Nasa ...

Southern California's high desert has been a stand-in for Mars for NASA technology testing many times over the years. And so it is again, in a series of flights by an F/A-18 aircraft to test the ...

TheStratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, was officiallywelcomed on June 27, 2007 to NASA?s DrydenFlight Research Facility adjacent to Edwards Air Force Base in southern California?s ...

DRYDEN RENAMED: NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., will be formally renamed the Armstrong Flight Research Center, in honor of the late Apollo 11 astronaut, on March 1. The late ...

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to rename a NASA flight research center after the late Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. The resolution, which late Monday (Feb. 25) was ...

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., now protects several of its unique, highly specialized research aircraft at its recently acquired satellite facility in Palmdale, ...

President John F. Kennedy is briefed by Wernher Von Braun (partly hidden) and Hugh Dryden (speaking to the President) at Pad B, Complex 37, Cape Canaveral, Florida, November 1963. (John F. Kennedy ...