Aeronautics

21 December 2004: Playing defense – Community must mobilize to protect NASA Langley, OpEd, Daily Press“Hampton seems to grasp the threat, and will need to mount a defensive action. But […]

16 November 2004:NASA’s X-43A Scramjet Breaks Speed Record“NASA’s X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books today, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of […]

WhiteKnight to launch X-37 test flights, Desert News“WhiteKnight, the unique aircraft developed by Mojave’s Scaled Composites to launch the company’s SpaceShipOne space craft, will have a new job early next […]

4 September 2004: NASA Releases Helios Prototype Aircraft Mishap Report “The board that investigated the loss of the remotely operated Helios Prototype aircraft during a test flight last summer released […]

27 June 2004: An ill wind blows for bit of NASA history, Daily Press “The military had a glut of tunnels too, so NASA and the Department of Defense formed […]

2 June 2004: NASA’s ‘scramjet’ funding in jeopardy, Daily Press“Funding for hypersonics research has not been consistent over the past four decades. After President Bush announced in January his vision […]

17 May 2004: NASA Pases out X-37 Support Editor’s note: From a NASA Watch reader: “NASA will no longer be funding the X-37 program. They had been financing the Approach […]