Langley Research Center

NASA Langley Locations Featured in New Warner Bros Film

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

HAMPTON, Va., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The role of NASA will be played by: NASA Langley Research Center.

NASA Research Pilots To Enter Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame

Space Ref (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009

NASA Research Pilots To Enter Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame

Photos: Langley test tunnel gets wind knocked out of it

Cnet (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009

NASA says it no longer needs the Langley Full Scale Tunnel, which tested the aerodynamics of everything from World War II fighters to today's X-48C.

xkcd: the exclusive interview

The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

... before you became Digg and Reddit’s most famous cartoonist, you were working on robots at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. Um, honestly? RM: Yup! But it’s not nearly as dramatic as it sounds. I spent one summer interning working on a student-run virtual reality project, and was hired the next year to work on another section of the base on a project building a little...

The Box

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009

... areas.Setting the action -- which takes place entirely in 1976 -- in and around NASA's Langley Research Center and its neighboring Virginian 'burb, Kelly returns to his "Donnie Darko" roots by depicting an all-American family succumbing to paranormal forces, with several nods to the styles and sounds of the epoch.Had this been the center of the movie, rather than an increasingly...

High in Chilean Desert, NASA's FIRST Makes new Observations of Earth's Atmosphere

Nasa (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009

... Earth's cooling emissions to space. The FIRST campaign in Chile, from August to October, will help Langley scientists and engineers better understand how water vapor controls the climate and energy balance of the planet. FIRST is also a prototype for an instrument that would eventually fly on the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) mission, which would be the...

NASA, Hampton and NOAA Host Earthfest 2009 at Nature Park

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009

HAMPTON, Va., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the leaves all around us are about to go orange, yellow and red, NASA Langley Research Center is still thinking "green."

NASA Announces Global Climate Change Education Awards

Nasa (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009

Amy Johnson Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-7022/757-272-9859 RELEASE : 09-243NASA Announces Global Climate Change Education Awards WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded $6.1 million in cooperative agreements to 15 organizations across the United States to enhance learning through the use of NASA's Earth Science resources. The selected organizations include colleges and...

NASA Satellite Laser Marks Two Billion 'Served'

Space Ref (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009

An Earth observing satellite that provides new insight into the role that clouds and atmospheric aerosols play in regulating weather, climate, and air quality has hit its target two billion times.The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission, developed by NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., and the French space agency Centre...

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NASA Tests ATK Composite Crew Compartment

Aviation Now (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

Pressure and external-loads testing is under way on a crew module sized to fit into an Orion crew exploration vehicle that Alliant Techsystems (ATK) built for NASA from composite materials.Although not intended as flight hardware, the test article will give experts pulled together by the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) an idea of the possibilities offered by composite pressure vessels...

NASA: Aluminium-lithium Orion better than composites TNR.v, CZX.v, SQM, FMC, ROC, AVL.to, RES.v, QUC.v, WLC.v, CLQ.v, LI.v, RM.v, BMW, BYDDY, RNO,

Sufiy. (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

... has been a success. ATK's composites plant in Iuka, Mississippi, delivered the module to the NASA Langley Research Center on 11 September, says Steve Summitt, ATK's programme manager. In pressure tests to date, the module has performed "scary close" to analytical predictions, Kirsch says. Structural testing is scheduled to continue until the end of the year. But the...

NASA Satellite Laser Marks Two Billion 'Served'

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

... Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission, developed by NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) has fired its lasers into the Earth's atmosphere over two billion times since its April 2006 launch. Along with passive infrared and visible imagers, CALIPSO's lidar, an...

Richard T. Whitcomb

NASA Watch (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009

Aviation pioneer Richard Whitcomb has died in Newport News at the age of 89. The NASA Langley Research Center engineer has been called the most significant aerodynamic contributor of the second half of the 20th century. If you look at...

ATK Delivers A High-Tech First to NASA - A Crew Module Structure Made of Composite Materials

Space Ref (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009

... and built to resemble a space capsule. Full-scale structural testing will be performed at NASA's Langley Research Center to determine the strength and viability of the composite structure. During the destructive testing, the CCM will be placed under load conditions similar to those observed during launch, on-orbit, landing, and abort scenarios.Led by the NASA Engineering and...

ATK Delivers A High-Tech First to NASA - A Crew Module Structure Made of Composite Materials

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009

... and built to resemble a space capsule. Full-scale structural testing will be performed at NASA's Langley Research Center to determine the strength and viability of the composite structure. During the destructive testing, the CCM will be placed under load conditions similar to those observed during launch, on-orbit, landing, and abort scenarios.Led by the NASA Engineering and...