The principle was
significant for missile nose cones, the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space
Shuttle craft and unmanned probes. The agency continues its legacy work in
aeronautics with breakthrough developments in quieter supersonic and subsonic
flight; zero-emission aircraft; and autonomous, high -altitude, long-endurance
robotic aircraft. It also returned the
payload of two raw eggs safely with no cracks.rocketcontest.

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NASA Celebrates 90 Years of Aeronautics Excellence

A team from Plantation High School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.org.

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In 1945, Robert Jones, one of the premier aeronautical engineers of the
20th century, formulated the swept-back wing concept to reduce shockwave
effects at critical supersonic speeds. Julian Allen conceived the blunt body concept.

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During the 1930s, NACA engineers developed several families of airfoils. NASA and Bell Aerosystems Company developed a Lunar Landing Training
Vehicle (LLTV) simulator for the Apollo program. Almost 10,000
students on 712 teams participated in regional competition all over the
country.
AIA President and CEO John Douglass said the contest was once again a huge
success.
"All 100 teams showed amazing cooperation and knowledge and should be very
proud of their accomplishment," Douglass said .

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The X-43A attained a maximum speed of Mach 9., A team of students from the Dakota
County 4-H Federation in Farmington, Minn.

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NACA engineers also demonstrated the advantages of
mounting engines into the leading edge of wings of multiengine aircraft rather
than suspending them, which became an industry standard.
During the 1940s, NACA researchers developed the laminar-flow airfoil,
which solved the problem of turbulence at the wing trailing edge that limited
aircraft performance .

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aviation industry and conducted
cutting-edge research in aeronautics.
In 1952, NACA began studying problems likely to be encountered in space."
TARC is sponsored by AIA and the National Association of Rocketry in
partnership with the NASA, the American Association of Physics Teachers and 34
AIA member companies.

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He shared the
1947 Collier Trophy with Chuck Yeager and Lawrence Bell for research to
determine the physical laws affecting supersonic flight.
NASA will continue to develop and validate high-value technologies that
enable exploration and discovery.

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" NASA has continued this tradition.
In May 1954, NACA proposed development of a piloted research vehicle to study
the problems of flight in the upper atmosphere and at hypersonic speeds.

Minnesota Team New Champion of the World's Largest Rocket Contest

THE PLAINS, Va.

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The third installation of the annual contest
included a total prize of $60,000 in savings bonds and cash.

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In 2004 four decades of supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) propulsion
research culminated in two successful flights of the X-43A hypersonic
technology demonstrator.

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The research helped pioneer advances in transonic and
supersonic flight.nasa. took the Team America Rocketry
Challenge crown Saturday, attaining a nearly perfect score to beat out 99
other squads.

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Many of these were successful as wing and tail sections, propellers and
helicopter rotors in general aviation and military aircraft.
In 1952, NACA's H.

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WASHINGTON, Today NASA marked the 90th anniversary
of its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The flights proved scramjet
propulsion may be a viable technology for powering future space -access
vehicles and hypersonic aircraft. They will share the top prize of $8,000 in savings bonds and cash
while their school will receive an additional $1,000.
The team launched its rocket and had it safely return to earth in 59.C. "We expect to see many of these
young people in our aerospace companies in the future, perhaps helping launch
actual rockets into space.

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It
suggested a blunt shape would absorb only a very small fraction of the heat
generated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere . This
led to the development of the rocket-propelled X-15 research airplane.
"It's amazing to not expect to get first, and then to get it," Nicole
Nelson said.
More than 500 middle and high school students from 27 states converged
upon Great Meadow, a picturesque steeplechase racecourse outside Washington
D.

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Donald "Deke" Slayton, then
NASA's astronaut chief, said there was no other way to simulate a moon landing
except by flying the LLTV.6
flying freely under its own power .
Eric Eid, Joseph Kamen, Theodore Kamen, Benjamin Pangerl, Julia Nelson and
Nicole Nelson made up the team, which included students from several different
schools.9
seconds, just 1/100 of a second from the target of 60.

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to vie for the title.

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From March 3, 1915, until its incorporation into NASA on Oct. NACA was created by President Woodrow
Wilson to, "direct and conduct research and experimentation in aeronautics,
with a view to their practical solution.

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1, 1958,
NACA provided technical advice to the U.
In the 1920s NACA engineers developed a low-drag streamlined cowling for
aircraft engines, which all aircraft manufacturers adopted. This innovation
resulted in significant operating cost savings, and it won the prestigious
1929 Collier Trophy.
With NACA's transformation into the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration in 1958, research for space travel became a high profile
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, took third.

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NACA's John Stack led the development of a supersonic wind
tunnel, speeding the advent of operational supersonic aircraft. Also in the mid -1940s Lewis Rodert
received the Collier Trophy for his pioneering research in a thermal ice
prevention system for aircraft.
For information about NASA, agency programs and history on the Web, visit:

http://www. came in
second, just 1/100 of a second behind Dakota County, and a team from Shelby
Junior High School in Shelby Township, Mich.

Founded in 1919, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) is the premier
trade association representing the nation's manufacturers of commercial,
military and business aircraft, helicopters, aircraft engines , missiles,
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It allowed a pilot to make a
vertical landing in a simulated moon environment. It set world airspeed records for an
aircraft powered by an air-breathing engine.