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• Luca on camera
• Astronaut Chris Cassidy Takes a Photo
• Eye-to-eye with typhoon
• NASA Researchers Work to Turn Blue Skies Green
• Aeronautics Research Making Air Travel Safer, Greener and More Efficient
• Supersonic Laminar Flow Tests Continue on NASA's F-15B
• Listening for the Boom and Rattle of Supersonic Flight
• NASA Tests Radio for Unmanned Aircraft Operations
• NASA Books Reveal Wisdom Gained from Failure
• Nothing Bugs These NASA Aeronautical Researchers
• X-48 Research: All good things must come to an end
• NASA Researchers Sniff Out Alternate Fuel Future
• Aviation Safety Analyst Flies with Blue Angels
• NASA Partner Boeing Invites Media to View Cst-100 Spacecraft Mockup
• NASA Invites Media, Public to Hangout at Live Orion Parachute Test
• NASA TV to Air Briefing Today on Early End to Spacewalk

Luca on camera Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:11 AM PDT Luca Parmitano taking photos during Tuesday's spacewalk. A little more than an hour into the sortie, Luca reported water floating in his helmet and NASA Mission Control decided to end the spacewalk early Original Source

Astronaut Chris Cassidy Takes a Photo Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:09 AM PDT NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Expedition 36 flight engineer, uses a digital still camera during a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station.  A little more than one hour into the spacewalk on July 16, 2013, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano (out of frame) reported water floating behind his head inside his helmet. The water was not an immediate health hazard for Parmitano, but Mission Control decided to end the spacewalk early. Image Credit: NASA Original Source

Eye-to-eye with typhoon Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:06 AM PDT Technology image of the week: Typhoon Soulik caught by a tiny camera on one of ESA's smallest satellites Original Source

NASA Researchers Work to Turn Blue Skies Green Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:05 AM PDT A big part of NASA's work to reduce the environmental impact of aircraft has moved into phase two. A semi-span jet model is scheduled to be tested in NASA Langley's 14-by-22 Foot Subsonic Wind Tunnel this winter to evaluate aircraft noise reduction technologies as part of the Flap and Landing Gear Noise Reduction Flight Experiment. Fay Collier, manager of NASA's ERA Project. Original Source

Aeronautics Research Making Air Travel Safer, Greener and More Efficient Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:02 AM PDT Our work will help find solutions for increasing the capacity, efficiency and flexibility of our national airspace. Original Source

Supersonic Laminar Flow Tests Continue on NASA's F-15B Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:00 AM PDT NASA Dryden's F-15B research aircraft flying small Aerion Corp. experimental test airfoil at supersonic speeds to gauge its laminar airflow capability. Dryden electronics technician Chris Brooke of Computer Science Corp. prepares the SBLT-II experiment hung underneath NASA's F-15B for flight test. Original Source

Listening for the Boom and Rattle of Supersonic Flight Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:58 AM PDT NASA engineers test people's reactions to simulated sonic booms to help develop technologies that might allow supersonic passenger jets to fly over land. More than 100 subwoofers and mid-range speakers generate the sonic boom noises that test subjects rate from least to most annoying. Researcher Jonathan Rathsam briefed sonic boom noise test listeners before they heard the more than 200 sounds they were asked to assess as part of NASA's supersonic technology research. Original Source

NASA Tests Radio for Unmanned Aircraft Operations Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:53 AM PDT NASA is flight testing a radio that could be used for communications with remotely piloted vehicles. NASA's S-3 Viking research aircraft at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The prototype radio, built under a cooperative agreement between NASA and Rockwell Collins, sits in its test rack in the rear section of the S-3 Viking. A NASA engineer standing on the trailer assists with raising the communications tower that transmits to the NASA research aircraft. NASA researcher Jim Griner coordinates the testing from his seat behind the cockpit of the S-3 Viking. Original Source

NASA Books Reveal Wisdom Gained from Failure Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:49 AM PDT The latest in NASA Aeronautics' Book Series tells the stories of lessons learned from accidents involving remotely piloted or autonomous aircraft. "Crash Course" chronicles the lessons learned from failures over the decades of remotely piloted or autonomous unmanned aircraft systems used by NASA, from Perseus to the X-36 and from subsonic to hypersonic speeds. The Perseus-B remotely piloted aircraft, designed to fly at high altitudes, experienced several mishaps during the 1990s that provided valuable lessons to researchers. "Breaking the Mishap Chain" focused on human factors involved in NASA aircraft or spacecraft failures. Original Source

Nothing Bugs These NASA Aeronautical Researchers Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:46 AM PDT A unique team is studying ways to prevent insect impact remains from sticking to an aircraft's wing in flight. Bug team researcher John Gardner lies inside the Basic Aerodynamics Research Tunnel, or BART, to prep leading edge of a scale model wing for a blast of bugs from the tunnel's bug "gun." Researchers Ron Penner (l) and John Gardner prep the device used to transport fruit flies into the wind tunnel. Other members of the bug team are shown at work as they test options for preventing bug impact build-up on the leading edges of aircraft wings. Original Source

X-48 Research: All good things must come to an end Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:28 AM PDT After nearly six years, a successful and productive joint NASA-Boeing X-48 Hybrid / Blended Wing Body flight test project at NASA Dryden concludes. The X-48C Hybrid Wing Body research aircraft banks right over NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base during one of the sub-scale aircraft's final test flights on Feb. 28, 2013. The Boeing – NASA X-48C Hybrid Wing Body aircraft flies over one of the runways laid out on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. during a test flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. Earth and sky meet in this close up of the X-48C Hybrid Wing Body aircraft as it flies over Edwards Air Force Base on Feb. 28, 2013. The long boom protruding from between the tails is part of the aircraft's parachute-deployment flight termination system. A deep blue sky backdrops the NASA-Boeing X-48C Hybrid Wing Body aircraft as it flies over Edwards AFB on Feb. 28, 2013, during a test flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Calif. Original Source

NASA Researchers Sniff Out Alternate Fuel Future Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:23 AM PDT What's in the exhaust of alternative jet fuels is a must-know to be sure it would actually be better than what aircraft use today. Puffy white exhaust contrails stream from the engines of NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory in this photo taken from an HU-25 Falcon flying in trail about 300 feet behind. A heavily instrumented HU-25 Falcon measures chemical components from the larger DC-8's exhaust generated by a 50/50 mix of conventional JP8 and a plant-derived biofuel. The "sniffer" plane – the HU-25 Guardian, or "Falcon" – is based at NASA's Langley Research Center. The modified HU-25 Falcon probes the exhaust contrails from NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory as both aircraft enter a turn at about 35,000 feet altitude during the first data-collection flight in restricted test airspace over California's high desert. During an early test flight, researchers in the HU-25 had this view of the exhaust plume from 15 kilometers behind the DC-8. Original Source

Aviation Safety Analyst Flies with Blue Angels Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:17 AM PDT Abegael Jakey, pilot and NASA aviation safety advocate, just flew with the Blue Angels. What did you do today? Original Source

NASA Partner Boeing Invites Media to View Cst-100 Spacecraft Mockup Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:15 AM PDT The Boeing Company of Houston is inviting media to view a full-size test version of its CST-100 spacecraft as NASA astronauts conduct evaluations inside it. Original Source

NASA Invites Media, Public to Hangout at Live Orion Parachute Test Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:14 AM PDT NASA will host a Google+ Hangout from the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. EDT July 24, as an Orion test capsule is dropped from a plane at 35,000 feet to evaluate its parachutes. Original Source

NASA TV to Air Briefing Today on Early End to Spacewalk Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:12 AM PDT NASA Television will air a news conference today at 4:30 p.m. EDT to discuss this morning's spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The news conference will take place at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Original Source

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