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... your career working at Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia . What were some of your responsibilities there? What were you involved with? '''Cassetti:''' Well, when I went to work for Langley in June of 1957, I was hired in at NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Langley Research Center as a—I think my title that they hired me was an aeronautical research intern ...

... to Langley Research Center Instrumentation Support Division, ISD. I can remember that G. Barry Graves was the division chief, and his deputy at the time Paul Vavra , who subsequently joined JSC Johnson Space Center ... the contractors. It was still a Barry Graves kind of interface, or a Langley Research Center, or a Goddard Research Center. Spent lots of time at Goddard because of their switching systems up there, which ...

... , they're in the business to make money, and the Langley Research Center was not in the business of making money. The Langley Research Center was actually to find out things, you know, and how to ... remember looking at the data one time on some simulations that were run in Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California on flying the Shuttle through a standard turbulent model. That's…the ...

... . By that time we had quite a big group there in Space Task Group at Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia . Then along about the time when they decided that they wanted to do ... again, I had to start from scratch. The Ames Research Center in Moffett Field California was the leader in what was called hypervelocity impact research. They had a gun, specialized gun, that could ...

... that worked, automatic or otherwise. At the time Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia had been working on rendezvous for several years, since they were a research center. They didn’t have anything that worked, because ... was a lot of complaints by Langley and especially by Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California that we were doing work that they should be doing. Then Langley got into the act with Wallops ...

... went to work for NACA at Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia , and again I was put in the best division there. It was called PARD, Pilotless Aircraft Research Division. We had the exciting opportunities ... was to be done by Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and then we had primary investigators from Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California and Langley. Well, in the course of this hands ...

... , Maryland. Then up to Ohio at Wright-Patterson. My loan to NASA occurred at the Langley Research Center, so I was back in Virginia, down in the Hampton area. But we did have ... at Wright-Patterson and the three to four years at Langley, it was very clear that the excitement of being a research test pilot was waning. So that’s why I was ... the call for the Shuttle pilot category of astronauts. '''Wright:''' When you were doing your research for this new class, did you involve the Air Force, because the Air Force had ...

... know you have accepted a job already, but I've been trying to get NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia to come here and interview for years, and they're finally coming, and ... headed out for the Langley Research Center. '''Butler:''' It seemed to work out pretty well then, right? '''Bostick:''' Well, yes and no. I was in the structures division at Langley, and specifically in erectable ...

... in the spring of '59. It was probably late April that I came down to Langley Field Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia , and started May the 3rd, either May 1st or May 3rd, because ... also the different type of work that NASA was doing. It was research, to some extent development, but mainly research. They'd inherited a lot of the know-how and people from NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics . NACA, that was their role in life, doing research, writing very good reports that helped the aerospace industry in the United States. It helped ...

... landing. Meanwhile, on the east coast, several NASA astronauts will be at the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., this week to fly simulations of a Dream Chaser approach and landing ... . In those years SNC has worked with the center to refine the spacecraft design. SNC will continue to test models in Langley wind tunnels. Langley researchers also helped develop a cockpit simulator at SNC ...

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