NASA Glenn is investigating the feasibility of using a revolutionary material called shape memory alloy to bend sections of an aircraft’s wings in-flight, potentially increasing performance and efficiency.
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NASA Glenn tests thruster bound for a metal world that could hold information about the beginnings of our solar system.
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A radiant “diamond” of sunlight is seen in the moments after totality during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017 in Jefferson City, Missouri.
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Cassini is a story that begins long before it first beamed back images of Saturn’s rings or when the Huygens probe touched down on Titan or even its launch in the early morning of October 15, 1997 atop a Titan IV-Centaur rocket.
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Breathing Easy with the Earth and Space Air Prize Competition
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A NASA program allows students to communicate with the International Space Station via ham radio.
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NASA and its partners are in the midst of testing the next, more complex version of its Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) technologies with live, remotely-operated aircraft, or drones, at six different sites around the nation.
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The NASA Image and Video Library allows users to search, view and download more than 140,000 high resolution NASA images, videos and audio files.
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Annie Easley at NASA Glenn Research Center. In 1955, Easley began her career at NASA, then the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), as a human computer performing complex mathematical calculations.
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Supersonic passenger airplanes are another step closer to reality as NASA and Lockheed Martin begin the first high-speed wind tunnel tests for the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) X-plane preliminary design at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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