NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center: Advancing Technology and Science Through Flight

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When you think of NASA, you probably think of space exploration. Aeronautics, the science of flight, is also an important piece of NASA's directive. NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center has been on the cutting edge of aeronautical development in pursuit of our goal to advance technology and science through flight throughout the seven decades of its existence. Branching out from its roots in aeronautics research, the center today supports NASA's science, space exploration and technology development goals as well as its core work in aeronautics through a wide range of research projects and missions.

NASA Armstrong is working to solve the challenges that still exist in our nation's air transportation system, helping create safer, cleaner, and more effective travel for everyone through fuel-efficient flight planning, and the reduction of aircraft fuel consumption, emissions, and noise. The center is conducting an unprecedented array of airborne science missions that seek new knowledge and understanding of Earth. It supports new knowledge of our solar system and the universe beyond through its operation of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. And NASA Armstrong is helping to validate new flight technologies that have practical implications here on our planet and in space exploration.

This video presents an overview of NASA Armstrong, NASA's center of excellence for atmospheric flight research, flying what others only imagine --- yesterday, today and into the future .