Happy Birthday Neil Armstrong!
On this day we remember Neil Armstrong on what would’ve been his 90th year on Earth. We honor his lasting impact and legacy in space exploration and aviation history, inspiring generations.
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's space shuttle Endeavour took its last flight.
On its final flight on September 21,2012 to the California Science Center, Endeavour was escorted by a combination of F/A-18s and an F-15 from NASA Armstrong.
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The X- 57 is on its way!
The propellers on the X-57 Maxwell aircraft spin for the first time under electric power for NASA engineers.
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Timing is everything
In order to acquire this image NASA flew a B-200, at around 30,000 ft. while the pair of T-38s were required to not only remain in formation, but to fly at supersonic speeds at the precise moment they were directly beneath the B-200. #Supersonic#FLIGHT
That's no ordinary moon—it's a supermoon with a total lunar eclipse!
Here's how (and where) you can spot it.
Don't miss tomorrows #SuperMoon:
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While we're all in favor of a little extra pie today, here at NASA Armstrong we think you can never have too much pi.
In honor of #NationalPiDay , we asked our Research & Engineering team to share some of the places we use pi here at Armstrong.
Elon’s favorite aircraft & one of ours too!
#TBT The SR-71 Blackbird
During the 1990s two SR-71's were used by NASA as testbeds for high-speed and high-altitude aeronautical research at Armstrong. It remains the world's fastest and highest-flying production aircraft ever built!
The “Quesst” to quiet sonic booms continues. NASA is refining Schlieren photography to capture sound shockwaves coming off aircraft. The images will show how shockwaves come off the supersonic X-59 airplane, resulting in a quiet thump on the ground.
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Despite challenges with the global pandemic, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California continued to support the agency in 2020 by safely advancing flight research in a mostly remote environment.
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"I can’t wait to be able to fly from the West Coast to the East Coast in half the time."
Our X-59 aircraft is designed to fly at supersonic speeds without producing a startling sonic boom. Learn more in the new "Small Steps, Giant Leaps" podcast: https://go.nasa.gov/3DI90lh
In honor of #NationalAviationDay, NASA Armstrong pilots share their unique stories of how they received their pilot call signs, which are often called nicknames.
WATCH:
https://youtu.be/J8HElbF_BAw
When complete, it will go through a series of test flights to ensure air worthiness & ability to create a sonic boom barely heard on the ground while it flies supersonic at cruise altitude overhead.
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Today we are honoring our 75th anniversary!
Aside from work in aeronautics research & contributing to aeronautical technologies & aviation safety, we also conduct work in space transportation & has a key role in many Earth & space science missions.
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#OTD 44 years ago, August 12 1977 the 1st free flight by the prototype space shuttle orbiter Enterprise was successfully flown.
About 65,000 visitors were in attendance at NASA Dryden (Now Armstrong) to watch astronauts Fred Haise & Gordon Fullerton. https://go.nasa.gov/3xHLZL2#TBT
This week is the 50th birthday of the F-16! #Viper50
NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center flew two prototype F-16XL aircraft for a variety of research projects in the early and mid 1990s.
Did you know that our Hangar 703 in Palmdale, CA, is approximately the size of 4 football fields? This hangar is used to house airborne science aircraft such as our ER-2s, C20-A, DC-8 and SOFIA. #SB52 Learn more about airborne science aircraft here: https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/aircraft