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Lockheed Fire
On August 12, 2009, the Lock …
8/18/09
Description On August 12, 2009, the Lockheed Fire broke out in the mountains southwest of San Jose, California, and burned through an estimated 2,600 acres of brush and timber by the morning of August 14. The fire was burning about 4 miles northwest of the town of Boulder Creek, and at least 2,000 people had been forced to evacuate their homes. This photo-like image of the fire was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite on August 13. The red outlines mark the location where the sensor detected active fire. A narrow but dense plume of smoke slices across the mouth of Monterey Bay, stretching past the city of Santa Cruz toward Monterey. The landscape of this part of California is one of redwoods and fir trees, and it appears lushly green in this image. But mixed with these forests are tracts of chaparral (landscapes dominated by fire-adapted, drought-tolerant shrubs and grasses) and large stands of highly flammable knobcone pine. Hot, fast-moving fires are a natural part of this landscape, and people's desire to suppress forest fires around their homes in recent decades has allowed some areas to become unnaturally overgrown and primed for wildfire. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.
Date 8/18/09
Oblique Wing Research
ECN-17954 Standing in front …
4/23/09
Description ECN-17954 Standing in front of the AD-1 Oblique Wing research aircraft is research pilot Richard E. Gray. Richard E. Gray joined National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, in November 1978, as an aerospace research pilot. In November 1981, Dick joined the NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California, as a research pilot. Dick was a former Co-op at the NASA Flight Research Center (a previous name of the Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility), serving as an Operations Engineer. At Ames-Dryden, Dick was a pilot for the F-14 Aileron Rudder Interconnect Program, AD-1 Oblique Wing Research Aircraft, F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire and Pilot Induced Oscillations investigations. He also flew the F-104, T-37, and the F-15. On November 8, 1982, Gray was fatally injured in a T-37 jet aircraft while making a pilot proficiency flight. Dick graduated with a Bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering from San Jose State University in 1969. He joined the U.S. Navy in July 1969, becoming a Naval Aviator in January 1971, when he was assigned to F-4 Phantoms at Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar, California. In 1972, he flew 48 combat missions in Vietnam in F-4s with VF-111 aboard the USS Coral Sea. After making a second cruise in 1973, Dick was assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4) at NAS Point Mugu, California, as a project pilot on various operational test and evaluation programs. In November 1978, Dick retired from the Navy and joined NASA's Johnson Space Center. At JSC Gray served as chief project pilot on the WB-57F high-altitude research projects and as the prime television chase pilot in a T-38 for the landing portion of the Space Shuttle orbital flight tests. Dick had over 3,000 hours in more than 30 types of aircraft, an airline transport rating, and 252 carrier arrested landings. He was a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots serving on the Board of Directors as Southwest Section Technical Adviser in 1981/1982. &#8250, Read Project Description January 1, 1982 NASA Photo /
Date 4/23/09
San Andreas Fault in the Car …
The 1,200-kilometer (800-mil …
11/13/00
Date 11/13/00
Description The 1,200-kilometer (800-mile) San Andreas is the longest fault in California and one of the longest in North America. This perspective view of a portion of the fault was generated using data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), which flew on NASA's Space Shuttle last February, and an enhanced, true- color Landsat satellite image. The view shown looks southeast along the San Andreas where it cuts along the base of the mountains in the Temblor Range near Bakersfield. The fault is the distinctively linear feature to the right of the mountains. To the left of the range is a portion of the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley. In the background is the snow-capped peak of Mt. Pinos at an elevation of 2,692 meters (8,831 feet). The complex topography in the area is some of the most spectacular along the course of the fault. To the right of the fault is the famous Carrizo Plain. Dry conditions on the plain have helped preserve the surface trace of the fault, which is scrutinized by both amateur and professional geologists. In 1857, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States occurred just north of the Carrizo Plain. With an estimated magnitude of 8.0, the quake severely shook buildings in Los Angeles, caused significant surface rupture along a 350-kilometer (220-mile) segment of the fault, and was felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nev. This portion of the San Andreas is an important area of study for seismologists. For visualization purposes, topographic heights displayed in this image are exaggerated two times. The elevation data used in this image was acquired by SRTM aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, launched on February 11, 2000. SRTM used the same radar instrument that comprised the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) that flew twice on Endeavour in 1994. SRTM was designed to collect three-dimensional measurements of Earth's land surface. To collect the 3-D SRTM data, engineers added a mast 60 meters (about 200 feet) long, installed additional C-band and X-band antennas, and improved tracking and navigation devices. The mission is a cooperative project between the NASA, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, and the German and Italian space agencies. It is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif, for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, Washington, D.C. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Distance to Horizon: 73 kilometers (45.3 miles) Location: 35.42 deg. North lat., 119.5 deg. West lon. View: Toward the Southeast Date Acquired: February 16, 2000 SRTM, December 14, 1984 Landsat Image: NASA/JPL/NIMA #####
Olympic Game Communication S …
Title Olympic Game Communication Satellite "Birds
Full Description The replicas of the covey (flock) of synchronous communication satellites that were used to televise the 19th Olympic Games from Mexico City to audiences in Europe and Japan. The satellites are shown at Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, California where they were built for NASA and Comsat Corporation. In the center is a full- scale model of the Intelsat II satellite, which was used by Comsat to send color TV direct to Japan via a Hughes ground station installed near San Jose, California. Left of Intelsat is the NASA's ATS-3 (Application Technology Satellites), which transmitted the picture portion of the Olympics to Europe and the Early Bird (right) transmitted the voice commentary of the European telecast in a dozen languages. These communication satellites went into orbit over the Atlantic in April 1965.
Date 10/16/68
NASA Center Headquarters
San Francisco Onion Layers ( …
Title San Francisco Onion Layers (321) and zoom to San Jose
Completed 1999-04-09
San Francisco Onion Layers ( …
Title San Francisco Onion Layers (432) and zoom to San Jose
Completed 1999-04-09
AC96-0232-110
1996 "STELLAR" and MCP progr …
8/6/96
Description 1996 "STELLAR" and MCP program commencements with special guests Mrs. Gayle Wilson, CA Governor Pete Wilson's wife (center), Zoe Lofgren, 16th District Congresswoman San Jose, California (right) and Ames scientist Dr Rose Grymes (left)
Date 8/6/96
ACD07-0049-003
Silicon Valley FIRST Regiona …
3/16/07
Description Silicon Valley FIRST Regional Robotics competition: Cheesy Poofs - Team 254 - NASA Ames Research Center & Bellarmine College Prep, San Jose, California (C)
Date 3/16/07
ACD07-0049-005
Silicon Valley FIRST Regiona …
3/16/07
Description Silicon Valley FIRST Regional Robotics competition: Cheesy Poofs - Team 254 - NASA Ames Research Center & Bellarmine College Prep, San Jose, California (C)
Date 3/16/07
ACD07-0049-025
Silicon Valley FIRST Regiona …
3/16/07
Description Silicon Valley FIRST Regional Robotics competition: Cheesy Poofs - Team 254 - NASA Ames Research Center & Bellarmine College Prep, San Jose, California (CA)
Date 3/16/07
ACD07-0049-033
Silicon Valley FIRST Regiona …
3/16/07
Description Silicon Valley FIRST Regional Robotics competition: Evolution Team 1834 - NASA/Google/NASA Robotics Education FIRST Spnsorship program/San Jose Job Corps/MetroED & SIA Tech, San Jose, California (CA)s
Date 3/16/07
ACD07-0049-045
Silicon Valley FIRST Regiona …
3/16/07
Description Silicon Valley FIRST Regional Robotics competition: The Apes of Wrath - Team 668 - BAE Systems/Capitol Honda/D&M Model & Machine shop/Mchale Creative & Pioneer High School ASB, San Jose California (CA) do battle with Quixilver - Team 604 - Exatron/Google Leland High School, San Jose, California (CA)
Date 3/16/07
ACD07-0049-053
Silicon Valley FIRST Regiona …
3/16/07
Description Silicon Valley FIRST Regional Robotics competition: Evolution Team 1834 - NASA/Google/NASA Robotics Education FIRST Spnsorship program/San Jose Job Corps/MetroED & SIA Tech, San Jose, California (CA)
Date 3/16/07
ACD07-0049-061
Silicon Valley FIRST Regiona …
3/16/07
Description Silicon Valley FIRST Regional Robotics competition: Evolution Team 1834 - NASA/Google/NASA Robotics Education FIRST Spnsorship program/San Jose Job Corps/MetroED & SIA Tech , San Jose, California (CA) trouble shooting with the help of Royal Robotrons Team 1070 - California State University, Northridge/Dreamworks Animation skg Louisville Hight school, Woodlands Hills, California (CA)
Date 3/16/07
ACD07-0056-064
Spaceward Bound event in the …
3/26/07
Description Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert? This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ shown here: Monika Kress, Professor of Astronomy at San Jose State University
Date 3/26/07
ACD07-0056-072
Spaceward Bound event in the …
3/26/07
Description Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert? This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ shown here are Dr Chris McKay and Monika Kress, Professor of Astronomy at San Jose State University
Date 3/26/07
ACD07-0056-073
Spaceward Bound event in the …
3/26/07
Description Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert? This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ shown here are Dr Chris McKay and Monika Kress, Professor of Astronomy at San Jose State University
Date 3/26/07
ACD07-0056-077
Spaceward Bound event in the …
3/26/07
Description Spaceward Bound event in the Mojave Deser , CA (an outreach exercise) with Dr Chris McKay and Ames Education department personnel Brian Day, Barbara Bazar and a accompaning (learning for the the classroom) team of teachers will be studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets. Why the Mojave -- an inhospitable, sun-drenched spot in the California Desert? This natural setting presents scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers and scientists will perform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radiation. for additional information and Outreach projects see http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ shown here are Dr Chris McKay and Monika Kress, Professor of Astronomy at San Jose State University
Date 3/26/07
Photo Description Erik Lindbergh christens NASA's 747 Clipper Lindbergh, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, with a special commemorative concoction representing local, NASA, and industry partners. The liquid consisted of a small amount of California wine representing NASA Dryden where the aircraft will be stationed, a small amount of Dr. Pepper (a Waco, TX invention), a quantity of French bottled water (to symbolize Charles Lindbergh's flight to Paris on this date), and a dash of German beer to represent the SOFIA German industry partners.
Project Description NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is being developed as a world-class observatory complementing the Hubble Space Telescope. The observatory, which features a German-built 98.4-inch (2.5 meter) diameter infrared telescope weighing 20 metric tons mounted in a highly-modified Boeing 747SP aircraft, has begun its flight test phase in a joint program by NASA and DLR Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center). Major aircraft modifications and installation of the telescope was performed by L-3 Communications Integrated Systems facility at Waco, Texas. Systems integration and flight test operations are being conducted at NASA's Dryden Flight Resarch Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. SOFIA's science and mission operations are managed jointly by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and the Deutsches SOFIA Institut (DSI), and are based at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field near San Jose, Calif. Once operational in the 2009-2010 period, SOFIA will be the world's primary infrared observatory during a mission lasting up to 20 years, as well as an outstanding laboratory for developing and testing instrumentation and detector technology.
Photo Date 05/21/2007
The SOFIA flight crew descen …
Photo Description The SOFIA flight crew, consisting of Co-pilot Gordon Fullerton, DFRC, Pilot Bill Brocket, DFRC, Test Conductor Marty Trout, DFRC, Test Engineer Don Stonebrook, L-3, and Flight Engineer Larry Larose, JSC, descend the stairs after ferrying the 747SP airborne observatory from Waco, Texas, to its new home at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California. NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, arrived at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. on May 31, 2007. The heavily modified Boeing 747SP was ferried to Dryden from Waco, Texas, where L-3 Communications Integrated Systems installed a German-built 2.5-meter infrared telescope and made other major modifications over the past several years. SOFIA is scheduled to undergo installation and integration of mission systems and a multi-phase flight test program at Dryden over the next three years that is expected to lead to a full operational capability to conduct astronomy missions in about 2010. During its expected 20-year lifetime, SOFIA will be capable of "Great Observatory" class astronomical science, providing astronomers with access to the visible, infrared and sub-millimeter spectrum with optimized performance in the mid-infrared to sub-millimeter range.
Project Description NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is being developed as a world-class observatory complementing the Hubble Space Telescope. The observatory, which features a German-built 98.4-inch (2.5 meter) diameter infrared telescope weighing 20 metric tons mounted in a highly-modified Boeing 747SP aircraft, has begun its flight test phase in a joint program by NASA and DLR Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center). Major aircraft modifications and installation of the telescope was performed by L-3 Communications Integrated Systems facility at Waco, Texas. Systems integration and flight test operations are being conducted at NASA's Dryden Flight Resarch Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. SOFIA's science and mission operations are managed jointly by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and the Deutsches SOFIA Institut (DSI), and are based at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field near San Jose, Calif. Once operational in the 2009-2010 period, SOFIA will be the world's primary infrared observatory during a mission lasting up to 20 years, as well as an outstanding laboratory for developing and testing instrumentation and detector technology.
Photo Date May 31, 2007
Fires in California
Title Fires in California
Description A series of 23 fires known as the Santa Clara Complex burn in the Diablo Mountain range northeast of San Jose, California. Seen as red squares in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image captured by NASA's Aqua satellite on August 27, 2003, the fires were started when a lightning storm rolled through the region on Monday, August 25. On August 29, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported that 18,457 acres had burned, threatening 40 homes. The fire was 50 percent contained. To the west of the fires, the San Francisco Bay is surrounded by cities seen as grey patches. San Jose is the triangular region south of the bay. San Francisco is west of the bay and Oakland is on the east. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Fires in California
Title Fires in California
Description A series of 23 fires known as the Santa Clara Complex burn in the Diablo Mountain range northeast of San Jose, California. Seen as red squares in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image captured by NASA's Aqua satellite on August 27, 2003, the fires were started when a lightning storm rolled through the region on Monday, August 25. On August 29, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported that 18,457 acres had burned, threatening 40 homes. The fire was 50 percent contained. To the west of the fires, the San Francisco Bay is surrounded by cities seen as grey patches. San Jose is the triangular region south of the bay. San Francisco is west of the bay and Oakland is on the east. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Fires in California
Title Fires in California
Description Two wildfires burning in the Mojave Desert at the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California continued to spread and threatened to merge into a single large blaze in mid-July 2006. At just over 8,000 acres as of July 14, the Millard Complex Fire is the smaller of the two, and it is located farther west. To the east is the larger Sawtooth Complex Fire, which was about 48,000 acres. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite captured this image of the area on July 13, 2006, at 2:10 p.m. local time. Locations where MODIS detected actively burning fire are outlined in red. The Sawtooth Fire is burning mostly in chaparral, [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral ] an ecosystem dominated by dense thickets of low-growing, drought-adapted shrub. Part of the fire has invaded the San Bernardino National Forest. The Millard Fire is burning in chaparral and conifer forest. Both fires are threatening homes in the region. As of July 14, the National Interagency Fire Center [ http://www.nifc.gov/information.html ] estimated the Sawtooth Fire was 20 percent contained, the Millard Fire was about 5 percent contained. The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per image pixel. That image also shows a wider area, providing a view of the Canyon Fire, which is burning in the Diablo Mountains to the east of San Jose. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_Fresno ] of this area in a variety of resolutions. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center
Fires in California
Title Fires in California
Description Several fires were burning in California on July 12, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite passed overhead and captured this image. The places where MODIS detected active fire are marked in red. In the south, the Sawtooth Fire and the Millard Fire are burning close together at the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains at the margin of the Mojave Desert. To the north, the Canyon Fire is burning to the east of San Jose in the Diablo Range Mountains. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_Fresno/ ] at a variety of resolutions.Current Wildland Fire Information [ http://www.nifc.gov/information.html ] is available from the National Interagency Fire Center. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center
Interplanetary Spacecraft Pa …
Title Interplanetary Spacecraft Passes Earth
Explanation Last Thursday an interplanetary spacecraft flew right past the Earth. The above images [ http://www-space.arc.nasa.gov/~leonid/news.html ] show sunlight momentarily reflected from this spacecraft's solar panels. No aliens were involved - the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous [ http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/index_old.html ] (NEAR) mission actually originated from Earth. Launched in 1996, NEAR [ http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/Overview/ ] zipped past the asteroid 253 Mathilde [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970630.html ] last June. This Earth flyby [ http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/ESB/index.html ] gravitationally deflects NEAR onto a trajectory passing the asteroid 433 Eros next year. Above, NEAR appears to move through the constellation of Perseus [ http://astro.gmu.edu/constellation/PER.html ], as clouds [ http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/intro/rossow.01/ ] created a changing diffuse white glow. NEAR was only visible for about 2 minutes from San Jose [ http://www.ci.san-jose.ca.us/ ], California, where these image-intensified video camera observations were taken.
Three Planets from Mt. Hamil …
Title Three Planets from Mt. Hamilton
Explanation Venus, Mercury, and Saturn wandered close [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050624.html ] together in western evening skies last week. On Saturn [ http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/kids/ fun-facts-saturn.cfm ]day, June 25, astronomer R. Jay GaBany recorded this snapshot of their eye-catching planetary conjunction, from historic Lick Observatory [ http://www.ucolick.org/ ] on Mt. Hamilton [ http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/hamcam/ ], California, USA. The view looks toward the Pacific shortly after sunset with the lights of San Jose and the southern San Francisco Bay area in the foreground. Of course, Venus is [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050107.html ] the brightest of the trio. Mercury [ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/planets/ planets_index.html ] is nearby on the right and Saturn is below and left, closest to the horizon. Farther to the right of the planetary triangle are Pollux and Castor, twin stars [ http://stardate.org/nightsky/constellations/gemini.html ] of Gemini, with Regulus [ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/regulus.html ], bright star of the constellation Leo, at the very upper left corner of the picture. In the coming days [ http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance/ article_110_1.asp ], Venus and Mercury remain close, while Saturn continues to drop below them, toward the horizon.
AD-1 with research pilot Ric …
Title AD-1 with research pilot Richard E. Gray
Description Standing in front of the AD-1 Oblique Wing research aircraft is research pilot Richard E. Gray. Richard E. Gray joined National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, in November 1978, as an aerospace research pilot. In November 1981, Dick joined the NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California, as a research pilot. Dick was a former Co-op at the NASA Flight Research Center (a previous name of the Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility), serving as an Operations Engineer. At Ames-Dryden, Dick was a pilot for the F-14 Aileron Rudder Interconnect Program, AD-1 Oblique Wing Research Aircraft, F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire and Pilot Induced Oscillations investigations. He also flew the F-104, T-37, and the F-15. On November 8, 1982, Gray was fatally injured in a T-37 jet aircraft while making a pilot proficiency flight. Dick graduated with a Bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering from San Jose State University in 1969. He joined the U.S. Navy in July 1969, becoming a Naval Aviator in January 1971, when he was assigned to F-4 Phantoms at Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar, California. In 1972, he flew 48 combat missions in Vietnam in F-4s with VF-111 aboard the USS Coral Sea. After making a second cruise in 1973, Dick was assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4) at NAS Point Mugu, California, as a project pilot on various operational test and evaluation programs. In November 1978, Dick retired from the Navy and joined NASA's Johnson Space Center. At JSC Gray served as chief project pilot on the WB-57F high-altitude research projects and as the prime television chase pilot in a T-38 for the landing portion of the Space Shuttle orbital flight tests. Dick had over 3,000 hours in more than 30 types of aircraft, an airline transport rating, and 252 carrier arrested landings. He was a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots serving on the Board of Directors as Southwest Section Technical Adviser in 1981/1982. Richard E. Gray was born March 11, 1945 in Newport News, Virginia, he died on November 8, 1982 at Edwards, California, in a T-37 spin accident. The Ames-Dryden-1 (AD-1) aircraft was designed to investigate the concept of an oblique (pivoting) wing. The wing could be rotated on its center pivot, so that it could be set at its most efficient angle for the speed at which the aircraft was flying. NASA Ames Research Center Aeronautical Engineer Robert T. Jones conceived the idea of an oblique wing. His wind tunnel studies at Ames (Moffett Field, CA) indicated that an oblique wing design on a supersonic transport might achieve twice the fuel economy of an aircraft with conventional wings. The oblique wing on the AD-1 pivoted about the fuselage, remaining perpendicular to it during slow flight and rotating to angles of up to 60 degrees as aircraft speed increased. Analytical and wind tunnel studiesthat Jones conducted at Ames indicated that a transport-sized oblique-wing aircraft, flying at speeds of up to Mach 1.4 (1.4 times the speed of sound) would have substantially better aerodynamic performance than aircraft with conventional wings. The AD-1 structure allowed the project to complete all of its technical objectives. The type of low-speed, low-cost vehicle - as expected - exhibited aeroelastic and pitch-roll-coupling effects that contributed to poor handling at sweep angles above 45 degrees. The fiberglass structure limited the wing stiffness that would have improved the handling qualities. Thus, after completion of the AD-1 project, there was still a need for a transonic oblique-wing research aircraft to assess the effects of compressibility, evaluate a more representative structure, and analyze flight performance at transonic speeds (those on either side of the speed of sound). The aircraft was delivered to the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, in March 1979 and its first flight was on December 21, 1979. Piloting the aircraft on that flight, as well as on its last flight on August 7, 1982, was NASA Research Pilot Thomas C. McMurtry. The AD-1 flew a total of 79 times during the research program. The aircraft was constructed by the Ames Industrial Co., Bohemia, NY, under a $240, 000 fixed-price contract. NASA specified the design based on a geometric configuration provided by the Boeing company. The Rutan Aircraft Factory, Mojave, CA, provided the detailed design and loads analysis for the vehicle. The aircraft was 38.8 feet long and 6.75 feet high with a wing span of 32.3 feet, unswept. It was constructed of plastic reinforced with fiberglass and weighed 1,450 pounds,empty. The vehicle was powered by two small turbojet engines, each producing 220 pounds of thrust at sea level. Due to safety concerns, the aircraft was limited to speeds of 170 mph.
Date 01.01.1982
Summit Fire, California: Nat …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Road closures and evacuation …
Fresno_AMO_2008143
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United States Population Den …
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The population of the United …
us_population_2005
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date 2006-10-17
creator NASA -- NASA image by Robert Simmon, based on data archived by the sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/ Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
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Cabo San Lucas, Baja Califor …
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The built-up areas of Cabo ( …
ISS012-E-7151
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date 2005-11-05
creator NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS012&roll =E&frame=7151 ISS012-E-7151 was acquired November 5, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using a 400 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
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Fires in California: Image o …
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Two wildfires burning in the …
Fresno.AMO2006194
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date 2006-07-01
creator NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
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San Jose, California Growth …
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This pair of images illustra …
san_jose_l7
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date 2000
creator NASA -- Image courtesy Landsat 7 project
identifier san_jose_l7
Fires in California: Natural …
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Several fires were burning i …
Fresno.AMO2006193
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date 2006-07-12
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Fires in California: Natural …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A series of 23 fires known a …
California.A2003239
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2003-08-27
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier California.A2003239
Fires in California: Natural …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A series of 23 fires known a …
California.A2003239
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2003-08-27
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier California.A2003239
General Description STS-111 Shuttle Mission Imagery
Liftoff of STS-59 Shuttle En …
Title Liftoff of STS-59 Shuttle Endeavour
Description The Space Shuttle Endeavour heads for its sixth mission in space. Liftoff occurred at 7:05 a.m., April 9, 1994. This photograph was taken by Karen Dillon of San Jose, California, who observed the liftoff from the NASA causeway. It shows the orbiter as a bright spot at the top of a trail of smoke, with the water from a nearby marsh in the foreground.
Date Taken 1994-04-09
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