GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY GALA PLANNED.Byline: Daily News NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Dryden Flight Research Center The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), located inside Edwards Air Force Base, is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. On March 26, 1976 it was named in honor of the late Hugh L. plans a small ceremony for employees Monday to mark its 50th anniversary, but the big anniversary bash will come Nov. 15 at the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. . The gala dinner-dance reunion in the fairgrounds' Challenger Memorial Hall is expected to draw up to 1,200 NASA workers, retirees, former workers, spouses, friends and children. Displays of NASA history and memorabilia will be set up at the gala, as well as a booth to videotape workers' recollections for an oral history of the center. Cost for the gala is $25 a person. Reservations can be made with Phyllis Kishbaugh at (805) 258-3472. Monday's will feature a talk by Dryden Chief Engineer William Dana, a former research pilot, about his experiences flying the X-15 rocket planes Rocket planes or rocket aircraft can be subdivided by the few rocket powered aircraft to have existed. Some early attempts at flights used engines that might be considered the first 'rocket' powered aircraft. , and the dedication of a time capsule. It will be filled with mementos such as a Dryden telephone book, photographs and biographies of administrators and the 50th anniversary edition of the center newsletter, and will be placed in the cockpit of the X-1E rocket plane mounted outside the Dryden headquarters. The capsule is to be opened at Dryden's 75th anniversary. |
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