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the year was 1903 horrible and Wilbur

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Wright had a vision to fly only 12 years

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after that historic first flight of the

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dunes of Kitty Hawk North Carolina the

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United States Congress began to organize

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a National Aeronautics research effort

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in march of 1915 this effort became

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known as the national advisory committee

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for aeronautics or NACA ground was

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broken for the first NACA facility on

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July seventeenth 1917 this center would

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be named the Langley Memorial

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aeronautical laboratory after professor

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Samuel Pierpont Langley a 19th century

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inventor aviation pioneer and competitor

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of the Wright brothers this laboratory

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one of the world's premier space and

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aviation research facilities would

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become known as the Langley Research

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Center in the years to come Langley

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Research Center is evolved today into

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one of the leading aerospace research

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laboratories in the world welcome to

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located in hampton virginia NASA Langley

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is the first and oldest NASA facility in

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the country Langley began contributing

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to the u.s. space program as early as

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1940 Project Mercury was born at NASA

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Langley in the 1950s over the last 75

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years Langley Research Center has made

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contributions to flight flight research

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and the tools and instruments used in

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the development of Aeronautics and

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aerospace industries since nineteen

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fifty-eight when NASA was formed Langley

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Research Center has made significant

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contributions in the training of

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scientists and managers thereby

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strengthening the entire infrastructure

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of our nation's aerospace industry

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Langley personnel form the core staff

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for many of the other NASA facilities

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today there are nine major NASA field

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centers directed by the headquarters

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office located in Washington DC research

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test flight facilities include Wallace

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Bryden in Edwards California Kennedy

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primary site for tests check out and

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Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas

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manages the space shuttle program and

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development Marshall Space Flight Center

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in Huntsville Alabama emphasizes

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projects involving investigation and

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application of space technologies as

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well as problems on earth and in space

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Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt

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and the universe while the Jet

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flight and finally the Stennis Space

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propulsion systems are tested as well as

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and the earth take place here at NASA

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Langley our mission is simple to provide

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basic research in aeronautics and space

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technology to create conceptual designs

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and theories for primary elements makeup

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likely Research Center our people our

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facilities our budget and our

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relationship with others the center

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employs approximately 3,000 civil

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service employees as well as 2,500

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our workforce has earned master's

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degrees and about twenty percent of

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reached doctoral level our facilities

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are currently valued at about 2 billion

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dogs line Lee has over 40 wind tunnels

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tunnels in the Western world these wind

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Langley's annual budget is approximately

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six hundred million dollars of which

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over 300 million is set aside for

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research the remaining funds operate

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product of the center is the knowledge

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research at Langley is pass on to

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general public as spin-off applications

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researchers focus on tomorrow today we

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are dedicated to long-term basic

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research as well as the high-risk

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problem solving in the increasingly

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competitive world of the future it is

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preeminence in science and technology

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broad spectrum of aerospace sciences and

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technologies critical to America's

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future NASA Langley will aid private

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enterprise and strengthen American

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educational institutions by developing