The Lunar Landing Training Vehicle #1 (LLTV-1) made its first flight on October 3, 1968, at Ellington Air Force Base near the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC),
vehicle’s aerodynamic characteristics, NASA engineers tested LLTV-3 in the wind tunnel
NASA Langley Research Center’s integral role in the past, present, and future of flight was on full display April 25-27 during the Air Power Over Hampton
where visitors to the NASA booths tested a paper helicopter in a small-scale wind tunnel
of 1, previous knowledge obtainedfrom tests made in the NACA 8-foot high speed tunnel
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Propulsion Systems Laboratory (PSL) Data Acquisition
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In preparation for the first landing of humans on the Moon, NASA instituted a quarantine program for astronauts and their samples returning from lunar landing
Activities included attaching a flexible tunnel to link the MQF to a mockup of an
Advanced Air Vehicles Program image gallery.
Truss-Braced Wing aircraft is seen here installed for testing in the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
During his visit to Ames, Cabana took a tour of the center that featured highlights of NASA facilities critical to the nation’s research and development activities involving flight in the air and space.
control issues in our nation’s airspace; the Arc Jet Complex, a high-energy wind tunnel
During NASA’s Artemis missions, the Orion spacecraft will sit atop the most powerful rocket in the world to launch humans to deep space.
abort scenarios that are difficult, dangerous or too expensive to perform in wind tunnel
“I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed … anything that could be counted,
for the tedious and precise work of measuring and calculating the results of wind tunnel
