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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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NASA Social: Behind the Scenes at Dryden
Followers of NASA's social media accounts get an all-day behind-the-scenes look and the planes, people and projects that make up NASA Dryden.
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NASA's ER-2 Completes MABEL Validation Deployment
The weather, the aircraft and the science instruments cooperated to successfully validate data from the MABEL laser altimeter planned for IceSat-2.
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Landis' Graphics Portray SCA Ferry Flight History
Space shuttle ferry flight graphics on NASA's SCA 905 and patches for the final shuttle retirement ferry flights leaving a lasting legacy.
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Space Shuttle Enterprise Arrives in New York City
Space shuttle Enterprise and its NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft fly over the Hudson River and New York before landing at Kennedy Airport April 27.
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Area Robotics Teams Compete at FIRST Championships
Four high school robotics teams co-sponsored by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are competing at the FIRST Robotics championship this weekend.
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Air Force' First C-17 Flies into Retirement
NASA Dryden's chief pilot part of flight crew as C-17 Globemaster "T-1" concludes 21-year flight test and research career for the Air Force and NASA.
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Discovery Transferred to NASM's Udvar-Hazy Center
Space shuttle Discovery is now part of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum exhibits at the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.
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: 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