NASA Langley Upcoming Events

KEEPING AN EYE ON FIRST COMMERCIAL LAUNCH TO ISSA, team at NASA Langley that had expertise in capturing thermal pictures of the space shuttle at Mach 18 will now turn its lenses towards the first commercial spacecraft headed to the International Space Station. Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) second Commercial Orbital Transportation Services demonstration flight of the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon spacecraft is scheduled for Feb. 7.

Langley's SCI-FLI (Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery) researchers will train imaging systems, both from on the ground as well as, for the first time, from onboard a ship, at the launch and initial flight stages to observe how everything performs.

50th ANNIVERSARY OF U.S. ORBITAL FLIGHT, Feb. 20 marks the 50th anniversary of Astronaut John Glenn's historic flight aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury space capsule. The original Mercury 7 astronauts, including Glenn, were assigned to NASA Langley as part of the Space Task Group that was headquartered in Hampton from 1959 until it moved to Houston in September 1962. -NASA.gov