Shuttle Endeavour Mated to 747 SCA Takeoff for Delivery to Kennedy Space Center, Florida Collection: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Collection Title: Shuttle Endeavour Mated to 747 SCA Takeoff for Delivery to Kennedy Space Center, Florida Photo Description: NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft No. 911, with the space shuttle orbiter Endeavour securely mounted atop its fuselage, begins the ferry flight from Rockwell's Plant 42 at Palmdale, California, where the orbiter was built, to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. At Kennedy, the space vehicle was processed and launched on orbital mission STS-49, which landed at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later redesignated Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California, 16 May 1992. NASA 911, the second modified 747 that went into service in November 1990, has special support struts atop the fuselage and internal strengthening to accommodate the added weight of the orbiters. Project Description: Space Shuttles are the main element of America's Space Transportation System and are used for space research and other space applications. The shuttles are the first vehicles capable of being launched into space and returning to Earth on a routine basis. Space Shuttles are used as orbiting laboratories in which scientists and mission specialists conduct a wide variety of scientific experiments. Crews aboard shuttles place satellites in orbit, rendezvous with satellites to carry out repair missions and return them to space, and retrieve satellites and return them to Earth for refurbishment and reuse. Space Shuttles are true aerospace vehicles. They leave Earth and its atmosphere under rocket power provided by three liquid-propellant main engines with two solid-propellant boosters attached plus an external liquid-fuel tank. After their orbital missions, they streak back through the atmosphere and land like airplanes. The returning shuttles, however, land like gliders, without power and on runways. Other rockets
Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142A Collection: NASA Image eXchange Collection Title: Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142A Description: Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142A: A tilt-wing prototype used in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) studies. After vertical takeoff with the wing pivoted upward, the wing pivoted horizontally and the craft would fly as a conventional airplane." Langley was extensively involved in wind-tunnel testing of XC-14A models, and in the actual flight evaluations of the actual airplane. Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication, by James Schultz. Date: 01.17.1969 Credit: NASA Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC) [ lisar.larc.nasa.gov/ ]
Helios Prototype flying wing Collection: NASA Image eXchange Collection Title: The Helios Prototype flying wing is shown moments after takeoff, beginning its first test flight on Description: The solar-electric Helios Prototype flying wing is shown moments after takeoff, beginning its first test flight on solar power from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, July 14, 2001. The 18-hour flight was a functional checkout of the aircraft's systems and performance in preparation for an attempt to reach sustained flight at 100,000 feet altitude later this summer. Date: 07.14.2001 Credit: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC) [ 
XV-15倾斜转子起飞——首先美国国家航空和宇宙航行局德莱顿飞行收集:美国宇航局(NASA)图像采集标题:倾斜XV-15交换——第美国国家航空和宇宙航行局·德转子起飞飞行描述:这张照片展示了第一XV-15倾斜转子的航班延误了NASA /德莱顿的"军队或有在爱德华兹空军基地,爱德华兹、加利福尼亚、10月1980年。这位前XB-70机库会看得到较低的权利
太阳能细微的企鹅会出现在飞行收集:美国宇航局(NASA)图像交换收集标题:太阳能细微的企鹅会出现在飞行描述:薄纱只企鹅在飞机撩·罗杰斯乾涸的加州在爱德华兹空军基地,显示了太阳能翼板与垂直面对太阳。背景的太阳能的第一次飞行的飞机发生在11月4日,1974年,当远程控制,设计了由罗伯特日出二世的《AstroFlight—公司、飞证明从弹弓发射。证明这一事件,AeroVironment公司。 (成立于1971年由超轻飞机改革者——博士。保罗MacCready)承担一个更多的雄心勃勃的计划,设计一个human-piloted太阳能的飞机。这家公司开始把人肉薄纱信天翁二世和规模到四分之三的其先前的大小与人类飞行员太阳能飞行操纵它。这是更容易做,因为早在1980年以前,薄纱信天翁飞行就发生了美国国家航空航天局的研究项目抵押共同执行程序中由兰利和德莱顿研发中心。一些航班被进行了使用小型电动马达的力量。细微的企鹅的被指定为“飞机规模缩小细微的企鹅。它有一个71-foot相比翼展96-foot薄纱信天翁跨度达。仅重68磅没有一
人员在发射控制中心观看阿波罗11号起飞收藏品:美国国家航空和宇宙航行局肯尼迪中心媒体档案收集描述:甘乃迪太空中心,佛罗里达-人员在发射控制中心观看阿波罗11号发射升空,今天在39A复杂的历史开始登月任务。three-and-one-half英里的寿命周期成本位于从发射台。 07/16/1969出版日期:
Russian Tu-144LL SST Flying Laboratory Takeoff at Zhukovsky Air Development Center Collection: NASA Image eXchange Collection Title: Russian Tu-144LL SST Flying Laboratory Takeoff at Zhukovsky Air Development Center Description: its nose drooped and canards extended, the Tupolev Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory lifts off from the Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow, Russia on a 1997 test flight. NASA teamed with American and Russian aerospace industries for an extended period in a joint international research program featuring the Russian-built Tu-144LL supersonic aircraft. The object of the program was to develop technologies for a proposed future second-generation supersonic airliner to be developed in the 21st Century. The aircraft's initial flight phase began in June 1996 and concluded in February 1998 after 19 research flights. A shorter follow-on program involving seven flights began in September 1998 and concluded in April 1999. All flights were conducted in Russia from Tupolev's facility at the Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow. The centerpiece of the research program was the Tu 144LL, a first-generation Russian supersonic jetliner that was modified by its developer/builder, Tupolev ANTK (aviatsionnyy nauchno-tekhnicheski y kompleks-roughly, aviation technical complex), into a flying laboratory for supersonic research. Using the Tu-144LL to conduct flight research experiments, researchers compared full-scale supersonic aircraft flight data with results from models in wind tunnels, computer-aided techniques, and other flight tests. The experiments provided unique aerodynamic, structures, acoustics, and operating environment data on supersonic passenger aircraft. Data collected from the research program was being used to develop the technology base for a proposed future American-built supersonic jetliner. Although actual development of such an advanced supersonic transport (SST) is currently on hold, commercial aviation experts estim
VAB Construction Collection: NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection Title: VAB Construction Full Description: Complex 39 reflection shot of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) under construction with the Launch Control Center (LCC) and Service Towers as seen from across the Turning Basin. Date: 1/5/1965
STS-1 Launch Collection: NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection Title: STS-1 Launch Full Description: The April 12 launch at Pad 39A of STS-1, just seconds past 7 a.m., carries astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into an Earth orbital mission scheduled to last for 54 hours, ending with unpowered landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Date: 4/12/1981
阿波罗11号发射收藏品:美国国家航空和宇宙航行局NASA的好照片收集标题:阿波罗11号发射充分说明:阿波罗11号土星V号太空交通工具爬向轨道39A从垫在起飞后。美国东部时间早上32。在2分半钟的时候,动力飞行S-IC助力器电梯车辆39公里的高空55英里downrange。这张照片是采取与伸缩管相机安装在一个空军EC-135N飞机。船上的是宇航员尼尔答:阿姆斯特朗,迈克尔·柯林斯许志伟奥尔德林,即)。7/16/1969日期:
SR-71 Takeoff with Afterburner Showing Shock Diamonds in Exhaust Collection: NASA Image eXchange Collection Title: SR-71 Takeoff with Afterburner Showing Shock Diamonds in Exhaust Description: Shock waves stream from the exhaust nozzles of the two engines of NASA's SR-71B as it leaves the runway on a 1992 flight from the Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later, Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California. The twin-cockpit "B" model is one of three SR-71s initially loaned to NASA from the Air Force for use in a high-speed, high-altitude research program. Two SR-71 aircraft have been used by NASA as testbeds for high-speed and high-altitude aeronautical research. The aircraft, an SR-71A and an SR-71B pilot trainer aircraft, have been based here at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. They were transferred to NASA after the U.S. Air Force program was cancelled. As research platforms, the aircraft can cruise at Mach 3 for more than one hour. For thermal experiments, this can produce heat soak temperatures of over 600 degrees Fahrenheit (F). This operating environment makes these aircraft excellent platforms to carry out research and experiments in a variety of areas -- aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, thermal protection materials, high-speed and high-temperature instrumentation, atmospheric studies, and sonic boom characterization. The SR-71 was used in a program to study ways of reducing sonic booms or over pressures that are heard on the ground, much like sharp thunderclaps, when an aircraft exceeds the speed of sound. Data from this Sonic Boom Mitigation Study could eventually lead to aircraft designs that would reduce the "peak" overpressures of sonic booms and minimize the startling affect they produce on the ground. One of the first major experiments to be flown in the NASA SR-71 program was a laser air data collection system. It used laser light instead of air pressure to produce airspeed and attitude reference data, such
8A野牛Augmentor喷气STOL研究飞机机翼收藏品:艾米斯研究中心的图像库标题:AC73-2101描述:摄影家:C-8A(NASA-716王Augmentor喷气STOL翅膀)水牛研究在飞机起飞降落乌鸦航空器到达日期:5/2/73
The first roof panels are placed on Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) Support Complex Collection: NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection Description: The first roof panels are placed on the multi-purpose hangar at the site of the $8 million Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) Support Complex at Kennedy Space Center. The RLV complex, which includes the hangar and a building for related ground support equipment and administrative/techn ical support, will be available to accommodate the Space Shuttle; the X-34 RLV technology demonstrator; the L-1011 carrier aircraft for Pegasus and X-34; and other RLV and X-vehicle programs. The complex is jointly funded by the Spaceport Florida Authority, NASA's Space Shuttle Program and KSC. The facility will be operational in early 2000 Release Date: 10/29/1999
STS-96发射收藏品:美国国家航空和宇宙航行局黑点收集STS-96形象:名称:完整描述了这张壮观的发射的一张照片是1999年5月27日发射卫星发现的STS-96)。STS-96的使命,近10天,这艘船是第二届国际空间站(ISS)装配和补给飞行和第一班航班前往停靠在车站。船员安装虾和俄国建立起重机、STRELA。航天飞机的SPACEHAB进行双模块内部和补给货物-和俄国起货机舾装进行综合航天飞机上的货物载体(ICC)。日期1999-05-28形象:
