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Engineers and technicians in the control room at the Dryden Flight Research Center must constantly monitor critical operations and checks during research projects like NASA's hypersonic X-43A. |
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ED04-0019-10 |
| Photo Date: |
January 24, 2004 |
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Engineers and technicians in the control room at the Dryden Flight Research Center must constantly monitor critical operations and checks during research projects like NASA's hypersonic X-43A. Visible in the photo, taken two days before the X-43's captive carry flight in January 2004, are [foreground to background]; Tony Kawano (Range Safety Officer), Brad Neal (Mission Controller), and Griffin Corpening (Test Conductor). |
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Project
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X-43A will ride on the first stage of an Orbital Sciences Corp., Dulles,
Virginia, booster rocket, which will be launched by Dryden's B-52 at about
40,000 feet. For each flight, the booster will accelerate the X-43A research
vehicle to the test conditions (Mach 7 or 10) at approximately 100,000
feet, where it will separate from the booster and fly under its own power.
Orbital Science's Launch Vehicles Division in Chandler, Arizona. will
construct the Hyper-X launch vehicles. |
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| NASA Photo by: |
Tom Tschida |
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| Keywords: |
X-43A, X-43, scramjet, captive carry, B-52, B-52B, 008, ship 2, Pegasus rocket, control room, Tony Kawano, Brad Neal, Griffin Corpening |
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