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Aeronautics Research Mission DirectorateImproving aviation saety and efciency
The rst “A” in “NASA” stands or“Aeronautics”—as in the “National Aeronau-tics and Space Administration.”
Aeronautics has been part o NASA or morethan 50 years. Beore that, the National Ad-visory Committee or Aeronautics conductedpioneering research that infuenced the de-sign o every U.S. aircrat. NASA integratedthat knowledge and existing testing acilities
when it was created in 1958.
The Aeronautics Research Mission Direc-torate, located at NASA Headquarters inWashington, oversees the agency’s aeronau-tics research, which is conducted primarilyat our NASA centers:
•AmesResearchCenter Moett Field, Cali.
•DrydenFlightResearchCenter Edwards, Cali.
•GlennResearchCenter Cleveland
•LangleyResearchCenter Hampton, Va.
RESEARCH GOALS
NASA’s aeronautics activities are organizedinto our research programs and one testacilities management program:
•AeronauticsTestProgram•AirspaceSystemsProgram•AviationSafetyProgram•FundamentalAeronauticsProgram•IntegratedSystemsResearchProgram
A view rom a NASA chase plane during a test fight o the blended wing body X-48B remote-piloted vehicle in April 2008. Image credit:
NASA Dryden/Lori Losey
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Each program emphasizes research through collabora-
tion and partnerships, shared ideas and knowledge, andsolutions that benet the public.
NASA works to improve aviation saety and eciency,
and to make aircrat more environmentally responsible.
Nearly every aircrat today includes a technology devel-
oped rom research conducted by NASA or rom tests
done in a NASA acility.
As demands on the aviation transportation system grow,
NASA’s aeronautics research goals include improving
airspace capacity, and reducing noise, emissions and
uel consumption.
AERONAUTICS PROGRAMS
Aeronautics Test Program
The Aeronautics Test Program ensures the availability
and accessibility o an extensive suite o ground and
fight testing acilities or aeronautics research includ-
ing laboratories, wind tunnels, fight test beds and other
aerospace assessment capabilities. NASA researchers,
other government agencies, corporations and institu-
tions use the program’s acilities to test new solutions
or everything rom jet engine noise reduction to aircrat
icing detection.
Airspace Systems Program
The Airspace Systems Program works to transorm the
national air transportation system to accommodate dra-
maticincreasesincapacity,efciencyandexibility.Its
researchiscriticaltodevelopmentoftheNextGenera-
tion Air Transportation System, which will allow or sae
and ecient travel through increasingly crowded skies.
Aviation Safety Program
The Aviation Saety Program ocuses on developingcutting-edge technologies and capabilities to improve
thesafetyoftheNextGenerationAirTransportationSys -
tem.Itsresearchactivitiesaddresstheparticularchal -
lenge o increasing saety while also improving eciency.
Fundamental Aeronautics Program
The Fundamental Aeronautics Program develops capa-
bilities or addressing national challenges in air trans-
portation including noise, emissions, uel consumption,
acceptable supersonic fight over land, mobility, and the
ability to ascend and descend through planetary atmo-
spheres. The capabilities will enable design solutions
or perormance and environmental challenges acing
uture air vehicles.
Integrated Systems Research Program
TheIntegratedSystemsResearchProgramfocuses
on exploring, assessing and demonstrating concepts
and technologies that are integrated at the system-
levelandthentestedinarelevantenvironment.Its
research is coordinated with the ongoing oundational
research conducted in the other three aeronautics
research programs, and with the eorts o other ederal
government agencies.
PARTNERSHIPS
NASA partners with others to enhance the state o U.S.
aeronautics, including major U.S. aircrat and engine
manuacturers, U.S. government agencies, universities,
non-government organizations, and international part-
ners where the research and cooperation is o mutual
benet to both nations.
Simulators play a large role in testing new aviation saety technologies, including
this test o a synthetic vision system that creates a graphical representation o the
environment outside the aircrat. Image Credit: NASA
Researchers run a simulation o potential new air trac management tools at
NASA’sAirspaceOperationsLab. Image credit: NASA Ames
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The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate uses a
variety o processes to create ormal and inormal part-nerships including: cooperative or reimbursable Space
Act agreements, NASA research announcements or an-nouncements o opportunity, technical working groupsor technical interchange meetings.
These are just a ew examples o the many partnershipscurrently underway:
Industry—working with NASA to:•developcomputercodestohelpdetecttheaccretion
o ice on aircrat;•developsmallcommercialefcientandquietair
transportation to be introduced during the time period2030-2035; and
•testnoisereductiontechniquestosomedayallowsupersonic vehicles to make transcontinental fights.
International Partners—working with NASA to:•investigatecausesof,andsolutionstoreduce,aircraft
airrame noise;•researchin-ightaircrafticingandimprovein-situand
remote sensing o the environment; and•design,fabricate,testandvalidatefoilgasbearings
that could be used in oil-ree turbomachinery.
Universities—working with NASA to:•developmulti-scaletoolsforairspacemodeling
and design;•developsmartsensorprocessingforautomatic
runway hazard detection; and•designandtestanintegratedalertingandnotication
unction or the uture intelligent integrated fight deck.
U.S. Government Agencies—working with NASA to:
•pursuecomplementarygoalsinaviationandspacetransportation saety, airspace system eciency,environmental compatibility and international leader-ship and others;
•transformtheU.S.airtransportationsystemintotheNextGenerationAirTransportationSystembytheyear 2025; and
•conductresearchthatenablesrevolutionarycapabili-ties in rotorcrat.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
InDecember2006,thepresidentoftheUnitedStatesestablished the rst National Aeronautics Researchand Development Policy to advance U.S. technologicalleadership in aeronautics. The goal is to create a vibrant,dynamic research and development community thatincludes government, industry and academia.
NASA contributed to the development o the policy, itsfollow-onResearchandDevelopmentPlanin2007andthe Research and Development Plan Technical Appen-dix in 2008. NASA’s aeronautics research goals are ullyaligned with these guiding documents and their keyprinciples: ocus on cutting-edge research with broad
benets, share research results as widely as possible,coordinate the management o U.S. aeronautics inra-structure across ederal departments and agencies, andestablish strong partnerships.
FUTURE WORKFORCE
NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate seeksto engage and inspire students o all ages through edu-
Test engineer Mark D ‘Aprile checks a small model o a supersonic jet conceptdesignedbyGulfstreamAerospaceandtestedinaNASAwindtunnel.Image
credit: NASA Langley/Sean Smith
NASA,withBoeingandtheAirForceResearchLaboratory,testsanadvancedvehicle concept that could make uture aircrat more environmentally respon-sible by reducing noise, emissions and uel consumption. Image credit: NASA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Headquarters
300 E. Street, SWWashington, DC 20546
NASA Facts
cational materials, design competitions or high school
andcollegestudents,exhibits,andmore.Inparticular,NASA provides programs to create a uture workorceby helping students pursue careers in aeronautics- andaerospace-related elds.
Aeronautics Scholarship Program
This new program awards scholarships to highly mo-tivated undergraduate and graduate students who arepursuing careers in aeronautics and related elds.
Undergraduates in their second year o study canearn up to $15,000 per year or two years, and gradu-ate students can earn up to $35,000 per year or threeyears. Money can be used or tuition, room and board,and other school-related expenses. Students also canapply or optional summer internships at NASA researchcenters to earn an additional $10,000 in stipends. Allapplicants must be U.S. citizens.
Twenty undergraduate and ve graduate scholarshipsare awarded each academic year.
For more inormation about NASA’s aeronautics re-search activities, establishing a partnership or applyingor a scholarship, visit www.aeronautics.nasa.gov.
BY THE NUMBERS
•Annualbudget,NASA:$18.7billion*•Annualbudget,NASAAeronautics:$507million*
•Workforce,NASA:18,798full-timecivilservice employees**
•Workforce,NASAAeronautics:approximately 1,395full-timecivilserviceemployees**
•NASAResearchAnnouncementAwards,NASA Aeronautics:377**
•InternationalPartnerships,NASAAeronautics**: 15 (countries represented include Australia,Canada,France,Germany,Japan,Korea,Spain,UnitedKingdom)
*Fiscalyear2010,U.S.dollars.**AsofOctober2009.
Tests in a NASA wind tunnel o this SMART rotor hub conrm the ability o ad-vanced helicopter-blade active control strategies to reduce vibrations and noise.Image Credit: NASA
HarvardgraduatestudentBenLeetunestheopticsonaquantum-cascade-lasermethane isotope sensor used or alternative jet uel testing. Image credit: NASA
Dryden/Tom Tschida