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Armstrong Flight Research Center
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Explore how the X-15, M2-F1 vehicle, and the LLRV at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center contributed to the U.S. space program
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Armstrong Flight Research Center

NASA center, California, United States
Also known as: Dryden Flight Research Center
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  • Vance Brand
    Vance Brand

    …of positions, mainly at the Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, until his retirement in 2008.

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    …of positions, mainly at the Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, until his retirement in 2008.

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  • David Scott
    David Scott

    …then became director of the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. He left the space program in 1977 to enter private business in Los Angeles. In 2004 he wrote a book, Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race, with Soviet cosmonaut…

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    …then became director of the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. He left the space program in 1977 to enter private business in Los Angeles. In 2004 he wrote a book, Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race, with Soviet cosmonaut…

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