Volume 40 Issue 23 Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California December 15,1998

News Brief

CSU

California State University-Fresno is offering a master's degree program in engineering with an emphasis on electrical or mechanical engineering at Edwards Air Force Base.

Registration for spring 1998 semester begins Jan. 5. Classes offered for the next semester are Linear Control Systems, Incompressible Fluids and Antennas and Propagation.

For more information call 258-5936.

Engineers

National Engineers Week is Feb. 21 to Feb. 27. The Dryden Educator Resource Center is looking for engineers to speak at schools during that week to help inspire students to pursue math, science and technology careers.

For more information, contact Michelle Rademacher at 948-7347. People who are interested are asked to call to receive information about a one-hour training session on Jan. 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

That training session is intended to help potential speakers prepare for the lecture and demonstrate hands-on activities that can be used in the presentation. Also the resource center has exhibits, videos and other materials that could be helpful for first time presenters.

Future X

NASA selected the Boeing Company, Downey, Calif., for negotiations leading to possible award of a four-year cooperative agreement to develop the first in a continuous series of advanced technology flight demonstrators called Future-X. The total value of the cooperative agreement, including NASA and Boeing contributions, is estimated at $150 million, with an approximate 50/50 sharing agreement.

Work under this cooperative agreement will begin immediately after successful negotiations.

In addition, three companies and three NASA Centers were selected for seven Future-X flight experiments with an estimated value of $24 million. The Future-X effort is managed by the Space Transportation Programs Office at NASA's Marshall Space Fight Center, Huntsville, Ala.

Future-X vehicles and flight experiments will demonstrate technologies that improve performance and reduce development, production and operating costs of future Earth-to-orbit and in-space transportation systems.

Under the cooperative agreement Boeing and NASA will advance 29 separate space transportation technologies through development and flight demonstrations of a modular orbital flight testbed called the Advanced Technology Vehicle (ATV). The ATV is first-ever experimental vehicle that will be flown in both orbital and reentry environments.

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