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Trong Bui, NASA Dryden's principal investigator for the aerospike rocket tests, with one of two rockets flown in the first tests.

 
Photo Number: EC04-0359-3
Photo Date: December 9, 2004
 
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Trong Bui, NASA Dryden's principal investigator for the aerospike rocket tests, holds the first of two 10-ft. long rockets that were flown at speeds up to Mach 1.5, the first known supersonic tests of rockets with aerospike nozzles. The goals of the flight research project were to obtain aerospike rocket nozzle performance data in flight and to investigate the effects of transonic flow and transient flight conditions on aerospike nozzle performance.
 
NASA Photo by: Tom Tschida
 
Keywords: Trong Bui, engineer, principal investigator, aerospike rocket tests, DART
 


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