Airborne Science

Aeronautics
Airborne Science
Armstrong Flight Research Center
DC-8
Earth Science
Langley Research Center
Science in the Air
After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, on April 1.
Posted April 10, 2024
Langley Research Center
Airborne Science
People of NASA
Women at NASA
Women's History Month
In honor of Women’s History Month, we caught up with the ASIA-AQ team on the other side of the Earth and asked the women from Langley about their inspirations and challenges as scientists. The ASIA-AQ (Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality) mission is an international cooperative field study designed to address local air […]
Posted March 29, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Airborne Science
DC-8
Earth Science
General
Langley Research Center
Science in the Air
NASA and international researchers are studying the air quality in Asia as part of a global effort to better understand the air we breathe.
Posted February 12, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Airborne Science
DC-8
Science Mission Directorate
What: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft will fly over Central Valley and surroundings areas as part of an air quality field study.
Posted January 23, 2024
NASA History
Airborne Science
DC-8
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
NASA Aircraft
Call for Papers Date: August 13–14, 2024Location: Washington, D.C. Jointly organized by the NASA History Office and the Earth Science Division, this workshop seeks to document the important contributions of airborne campaigns implemented on NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory.
Posted December 11, 2023
Advanced Air Transport Technology
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics
Airborne Science
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Green Aviation Tech
In a collaboration between multiple partners in the aviation industry, NASA is helping determine if the latest advances in aircraft engines and fuels can reduce atmospheric warming from condensation trails.
Posted December 11, 2023
Airborne Science
Ames Research Center
Animal Biology
Earth
Earth System Observatory (ESO)
Ecostress (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station)
EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation)
International Space Station (ISS)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Plant Biology
NASA satellite and airborne tools aid an international team studying biodiversity on land and in the water around South Africa. An international team of researchers spent October and November 2023 in the field studying one of the world’s most biologically diverse areas – South Africa’s Greater Cape Floristic Region.
Posted December 8, 2023
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