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... investigator at Ames - Stephen Carman, LCROSS spacecraft project manager at Northrop Grumman - Craig Elder, LCROSS spacecraft manager at Northrop Grumman "We are honored to win this award, said Steve Hixson ... and operations while each research team secured separate funding for their technology development. The aircraft provides a series of short periods of reduced gravity lasting about 25 seconds. By ...

NASA supercritical wing, flown on TF-8A jet aircraft piloted by NASA test pilot Thomas C. McMurtry, successfully completed seventh flight from vac. Aircraft reached 12 900-m (42 500-ft) altitude ... just testing out an engineering concept or working out a procedure to do something." ''(Transcript)'' Grumman Aerospace Corp. pilots Robert K. Smyth and William H. Miller conducted successful 58-min flight ... second flight, on Dec. 30, 1970, when it crashed into woods near Grumman facility seconds after they successfully ejected. Aircraft was kept at speeds below 467 km per hr (290 mph) during ...

... airspace using detect and avoid technology to fly without a safety chase aircraft. NASA’s Ikhana MQ-9 remotely-piloted aircraft, based at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in ... accommodate changes in the schedule due to environmental testing and work performance challenges by Northrop Grumman on the spacecraft’s sunshield and propulsion system. The telescope’s new total lifecycle ...

... , ice cover, and currents originating in the Pacific. NASA's instrumented Convair 990 aircraft, a Soviet 11-18 aircraft, U.S. Coast Guard ice­breaker Staten Island, and Soviet weathership Priboy had ... Navy John W. Warner and Grumman Corp. President John C. Bierwirth signed an agreement for the Grumman Aerospace Corp. to build 48 additional F-14 jet fighter aircraft at current contract prices. The ...

... Rockwell Corp. released statement that it was awarding $8 million in subcontracts to Grumman Corp. for engineering work on space shuttle. McDonnell Douglas Corp. would receive subcontracting ... -111 jet fighter aircraft, FB-lll swing-wing bomber, SR-71 photographic reconnaissance aircraft, T-38 supersonic trainer aircraft, and C-5 Galaxy, world's largest aircraft. See Sept. 18. ''( ...

... prime contract to build space shuttle. Summary said NR had been chosen over competitors- Grumman Aerospace Corp.; Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Inc., Space Systems Div.; and McDonnell Douglas Corp ... attack radar and inertial navigation components of Mark II avionics system of F-111 aircraft. ''(DOD Release 697-72)'' September 1972 September October 1972 October Oct 1 1972 1 ...

... crew that "they don't have to worry about our letting down." Jobs of 600 Grumman workers at Kennedy Space Center would terminate with completion of Apollo 17 mission. ''(W Post ... , N.J., and could be airlifted by Air Force C-141 cargo aircraft to transport patients with communicable diseases. Previously aircraft had to be decontaminated after carrying contagious patients. ''(St. Louis P ...

... , and Grumman pilots would fly the first phase or initial concept evaluation of the government flight research program and then would gradually increase the performance of the forward-swept wing aircraft to ... start of the second phase or full envelope concept evaluation, the contractor would modify the aircraft's flight control system to incorporate full envelope flight control system capabilities. The second phase ...

... negotiate with Grumman Aerospace Corp., Lockheed Aircraft Corp., and Chrysler Corp. for 11-mo Phase A (feasibility) contracts to study Space Shuttle concepts. Boeing Co. would be major subcontractor to Grumman on $4 ... )'' Intention to create separate FAA office to deal with total air transportation security problems, including aircraft hijacking, was announced by Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe. ''(FAA Release 70-57)'' June ...

... aircraft crashed and burned after developing hydraulic problem during second flight from Grumman Corp. test flight facility at Calverton, N.Y. Aircraft had made maiden flight Dec. 21. Grumman Corp. officials and engineers said aircraft ... parachuted to safety. '' (Hoffman, W Post, 12/31/ 70, A1)'' DOD proposal to save Lockheed Aircraft Corp. from bankruptcy by adding $1.45 billion to Government payments on four Lockheed contracts ...

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