Welcome to the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center . As you may know, since 1946 engineers and pilots from NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, have been conducting pioneering flight research above Rogers Dry Lake and the Mojave Desert . Our proud heritage includes the X-1, X-15, Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire, F-8 Supercritical Wing, the Space Shuttle, and many other research vehicles that have contributed enormously to the nation’s aerospace technologies.

Dryden’s men and women have played a major role in developing and maturing these vehicles and passing on the technologies they have researched. Dryden is ready to make even greater contributions in the future. You have a wonderful opportunity to join in that great tradition and make your own contributions to keeping America in the forefront of advancing aerospace technology.

You will be combining your talents and training with those of a great many first-rate engineers, technicians, and people in various other fields who work together to advance aerospace science and technology through flight research. Dryden has always been a small but important part of NASA and a great and inspiring place to work. In the words of our namesake, Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, we “separate the real from the imagined problems and . . . make known the overlooked and unexpected problems.”

I look forward to meeting you and observing your own contributions to Dryden’s, NASA’s, and the country’s progress in aerospace technology.

Once again, welcome.