Nothing Bugs These NASA Aeronautical Researchers

A unique team is studying ways to prevent insect impact remains from sticking to an aircraft's wing in flight.

Bug team researcher John Gardner lies inside the Basic Aerodynamics Research Tunnel, or BART, to prep leading edge of a scale model wing for a blast of bugs from the tunnel's bug "gun."

X-48 Research: All good things must come to an end

After nearly six years, a successful and productive joint NASA-Boeing X-48 Hybrid / Blended Wing Body flight test project at NASA Dryden concludes.

The X-48C Hybrid Wing Body research aircraft banks right over NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base during one of the sub-scale aircraft's final test flights on Feb. 28, 2013.

NASA Researchers Sniff Out Alternate Fuel Future

What's in the exhaust of alternative jet fuels is a must-know to be sure it would actually be better than what aircraft use today.

Puffy white exhaust contrails stream from the engines of NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory in this photo taken from an HU-25 Falcon flying in trail about 300 feet behind.

Aviation Safety Analyst Flies with Blue Angels

Abegael Jakey, pilot and NASA aviation safety advocate, just flew with the Blue Angels. What did you do today?

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NASA Partner Boeing Invites Media to View Cst-100 Spacecraft Mockup

The Boeing Company of Houston is inviting media to view a full-size test version of its CST-100 spacecraft as NASA astronauts conduct evaluations inside it.

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NASA Invites Media, Public to Hangout at Live Orion Parachute Test

NASA will host a Google+ Hangout from the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. EDT July 24, as an Orion test capsule is dropped from a plane at 35,000 feet to evaluate its parachutes.
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NASA TV to Air Briefing Today on Early End to Spacewalk

NASA Television will air a news conference today at 4:30 p.m. EDT to discuss this morning's spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The news conference will take place at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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