pheric conditions to airplane pilots, tools that detect damage to airplane structures to lightweight polymers used in plastic food containers.
Engineering and Safety
The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) is chartered to serve as an Agency wide technical resource focused on engineering excellence.
The NESC's objective is to improve safety by performing independent engineering assessments, testing and analysis to uncover technical vulnerabilities and to determine appropriate preventive and corrective actions for problems, trends, or issues within NASA's programs, projects, and institutions.
Using NASA's best engineering expertise and its government, university, national laboratory, and industry partners, the NESC accepts requests for involvement from all across the Agency, as well as from numerous external sources.
National Institute of Aerospace
Langley helped to establish the National Institute of Aerospace, a non-profit research and graduate education institute, to compliment its mission to conduct cutting-edge aerospace and atmospheric research.
Founded by a consortium of leading research universities and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation, the institute integrates research and graduate education while creating new partnerships among academia, government, and industry to solve tomorrow's problems today.
Langley Leading the Way
Since its inception, NASA Langley has made significant contributions to the Nation's space program.
From training the original seven Mercury Project astronauts, conducting wind tunnel tests of the Saturn-Apollo vehicle, to developing the entry, descent, and landing flight dynamics simulation for the Mars Exploration Rover mission, Langley researchers have used their expertise to further mankind's understanding of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Today, Langley experts are readily preparing to chart a new course in space exploration, and achieve the goals outlined in the NASA Vision for Space Exploration. Likewise, they are also diligently working to develop new technologies to improve air transportation here on Earth as well as enhance our understanding of Earth's complex systems and the effects of climate change.
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