March 30, 2001 X-Press Issue

Volume 43 Issue 3 Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California March 30, 2001

X-40A first flight is a success

NASA Photo by Carla Thomas

The X-40A successfully airlaunches March 14 in the skies above Rogers Dry Lake.

NASA News Services

The first of a series of free-flight tests of the X-40A, a subscale, unpowered version of the X-37 technology demonstrator, was airlaunched from an Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter at 15,000 feet above Rogers Dry Lake March 14.

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Weather brings Atlantis to Dryden

Sylvia E. Pierson
X-Press Assistant Editor

The Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) topped off a 13-day, 5.3-million-mile roundtrip mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with a textbook landing at Edwards Air Force Base Feb. 20. The landing – the 47th Shuttle landing to take place at Edwards – marked the end of the 23rd flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the 102nd Space Shuttle mission of NASA's space program.

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