Researchers at NASA Langley contribute to just about every mission NASA has from aviation to earth science to space exploration. Here's what just a few of NASA Langley's 3600 employees do in 2016 - the year before the research facility turns 100.
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NASA commemorated the many contributions of retired mathematician Katherine Johnson to America’s space program during a building dedication ceremony on May 5, at the agency’s Langley Research Cente...
The "human computer" who calculated the trajectories for the first U.S. human spaceflights was honored May 5, 2016 at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. NASA Langley's new computer rese...
Following a naming dedication ceremony May 5, 2016 - the 55th anniversary of Alan Shepard's historic rocket launch - NASA Langley Research Center's newest building is known as the Katherine G. John...
APRIL 7, 2016 – Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, kicked off a series of nine drop tests of a representative Orion crew capsule with crash test dummies inside to und...
Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, are developing inflatable heat shield technology called a Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator that could be vacuum packed...
How do we get more young girls interested in science & engineering? Why does it matter? Hear Jill Prince, Manager, Systems Engineering Office at the Langley Research Center, discuss these issues. ...
Victoria Chung, who leads NASA Langley's Simulation Development & Analysis Branch, talks about where her career has taken her since she was profiled in a 2003 "Women of NASA Langley" video.
The return of supersonic passenger travel is one step closer to reality with NASA's award of a contract for the preliminary design of a low boom flight demonstrator aircraft. This is the first in a...
NASA researchers have their boots on the ground and wings in the skies in Gabon, on Africa¹s east coast, for a comprehensive survey of the carbon storage of tropical forests. Partnering together wi...
Engineers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., and Boeing dropped a full-scale test article of the company’s CST-100 Starliner into Langley’s 20-foot-deep Hydro Impact Basin at the ...