Langley Research Center - Hampton, VA

NASA's Langley Research Center has been instrumental in shaping aerospace history for more than eight decades. Established in 1917 as the first national civil aeronautics laboratory, Langley has become a comprehensive, world-class center for aeronautics, atmospheric sciences, and space technology. Researchers at Langley focus on some of the biggest technical challenges of our time: global climate change, access to space and revolutionizing airplanes and the air transportation system. Langley researchers also develop technology for advanced space transportation systems and for small spacecraft and instruments. Seventy percent of NASA Langley's effort is in aeronautics research, working to improve today's aircraft and to develop concepts for future aircraft. Langley’s wind tunnel enterprise represents one of the largest collections of aeronautical research testing capabilities in the world. It provides high-quality experimentation capabilities enabling revolutionary advances in aerospace vehicles, concepts and technologies. NASA Langley's research includes systems analysis, aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, hypersonic propulsion, structures, materials, atmospheric sciences and remote sensing, and airborne systems, including crew station design and integration. NASA Langley researchers are working to continue the legacy earned over the past 90 years. They are changing the way the world lives.