An engineer applies scientific principles to design, build, and test machines, systems, or structures to meet specific needs. They follow the steps of the
.” – Sam Zauber, wind tunnel test engineer “Students today have so many opportunities
The arrival of a unique experimental demonstrator at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center on February 26 may herald a future in which many aircraft are
Instead of being installed in a wind tunnel, the HEIST wing section will remain attached
50 years ago, on the way to the Moon…
Falls Church, VA, to build four MQFs and supporting hardware, such as a collapsible tunnel
Overview Cave of the Winds: The Remarkable History of the Langley Full-Scale 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
The NASA History Office serves two key functions: fulfilling the mandate of the 1958 „Space Act“ calling for NASA to disseminate aerospace information as
researcher measures the ice thickness on a landing antenna model in the Icing Research Tunnel
Truss-Braced Wing aircraft is seen here installed for testing in the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
The skies are getting busier every day, with new types of aircraft aiming to provide innovative air travel services that seek to improve all of our lives, whether that means delivering cargo to your front door or providing personalized taxi service across town. NASA is working with its government and industry partners to provide air traffic solutions to keep the sky lanes open, efficient, and safer than ever before.
calls from your home or office in the cockpit of the X-59 or from inside a wind tunnel
With President John F. Kennedy’s end-of-the-decade target of landing a man on the Moon approaching, NASA set ambitious goals for 1967 to human-rate the Saturn
aspects, the most prominent being that they carried a docking system and transfer tunnel
