NASA Award: Demolish Shuttle Mate Demate Device “Contracting Office Address – NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center, Code A, P.O. Box 273, Edwards, CA 93523-0273 Description – In accordance with this contract, the contractor shall furnish all materials, labor, equipment and facilities, except as specified herein to be furnished by the Government, and shall do all that which is necessary or incedental to the satisfactory and timely performance of the project entitled, […]

NASA Honors Astronaut Neil Armstrong with Center Renaming “Two generations of aerospace engineering excellence will come together March 1 when NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., is redesignated NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center.  The agency’s center of excellence for atmospheric flight research is being renamed in honor of the late Neil A. Armstrong, a former research test pilot at the center and the first man to step on […]

NASA DFRC Award: Production Music Contract “Contract Award Amount: 15528.00 Contractor: UNIVERSAL MUSIC/KILLER TRACKS 2110 COLORADO AVENUE SUITE 110 SANTA MONICA, CA 90404 Classification Code: A — Research and Development NAICS Code: 512110 – Motion Picture and Video Production” Keith’s update: Looks like someone did not get the memos.

House Renames Flight Center After Neil Armstrong “The House of Representatives today approved a resolution to rename the Dryden Flight Research Center, located in southern California, the “Neil Armstrong Research Center.” H.R. 667 also re-designates the surrounding test range to honor Hugh Dryden, a prominent aeronautical engineer.” House Republicans are over the moon about sequestration, Washington Post “The lone Democrat to speak, Rep. Donna Edwards (Md.), noted the irony in […]

Rep. McCarthy Seeks to Rename Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center “Congressman Kevin McCarthy today announced legislation to redesignate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center and the Western Aeronautical Test Range as the Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range. Joining Congressman McCarthy in introducing this legislation are Congressman Buck McKeon, Congressman […]

Grounded NASA Space Plane Poised for Comeback?, Wired “Last week, NASA contractors moved the two, 59-foot-long X-34s from open storage to a test pilot school in California’s Mojave Desert. There, workers from Orbital Sciences, the X-34’s original builder, will inspect the two robotic rocketships with an eye to flying them again.” The Real Story Behind NASA’s Resurrected Space Plane, Wired “But that doesn’t mean NASA has formal plans to operate […]

NASA Solicitation: Horizontal Launch Study “The Horizontal Launch Study (HLS) study will provide an assessment of horizontal launch architectures for several payload classes to access/service LEO for both military and civilian applications. HLS will open the trade space to several payload classes from micro to medium sized payloads and different staging scenarios from subsonic to supersonic separations speeds for each payload classes. HLS will identify architectures that support near term […]

Keith’s note: According to Dryden Management Meeting Minutes (DM3) David McBride has been named permanent Center Director of Dryden. He was the Deputy Director and has been acting Center Director since Kevin Petersen’s retirement last April.