D23 – B747

Space Shuttle Endeavour over Houston downtown, on its final ferry flight to Los Angeles.

After a 12-mile creep through Los Angeles city streets on a 160-wheeled carrier, the Endeavour is now on display in the Samuel Oschin Pavilion at the California Science Center.

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    Bill Dana, NASA research pilot, stands with the hypersonic X-15.

  • D03- C-140 JetStar

    The C-140 JetStar was reconfigured as the General Purpose Airborne Simulator (GPAS) to simulate the flight characteristics of other aircraft.

  • D04 – M2-F1

    Test pilots Bruce Peterson, Milt Thompson, Don Mallick and Chuck Yeager in the cockpit of the M2-F1.

  • D07 – SOFIA – The Flying Infrared Observatory

    The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA rests in NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center hangars in Palmdale, California.