"Star Trek" captain William Shatner narrates a new 45-minute documentary about NASA's Langley Research Center, which celebrates 100 years of solving "fundamental problems of flight" this year, according to the agency.
Naturally, since the time of its inception, the laboratory - no longer solely aeronautical - ended up solving problems in space as well. One of its most enduring legacies was the space shuttle, which flew between 1981 and 2001 - a versatile winged craft that could land on a runway. [NASA Centers to Visit for an Out-of-This-World Vacation]
And Langley's legacy stretches even farther into the solar system - think landings on Mars and exploring deep space on NASA's forthcoming Space Launch System. A few highlights of its history are below. Read more....
Naturally, since the time of its inception, the laboratory - no longer solely aeronautical - ended up solving problems in space as well. One of its most enduring legacies was the space shuttle, which flew between 1981 and 2001 - a versatile winged craft that could land on a runway. [NASA Centers to Visit for an Out-of-This-World Vacation]
And Langley's legacy stretches even farther into the solar system - think landings on Mars and exploring deep space on NASA's forthcoming Space Launch System. A few highlights of its history are below. Read more....