NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER 1917-2017
Shaping the Future Of Earth, Air, and Space By Edward Goldstein
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” To imagine the future of NASA’s Langley Research Center, perhaps it’s best to assume that a past of historic accomplishments is prelude to another century in which Langley engineers and scientists positively shape the agency’s future from the ground up. The center that helped conquer the sound barrier more than 50 years ago will no doubt also help make cleaner and quieter
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– George Bernard Shaw supersonic flight a routine part of future air travel. The determined researchers who developed the instruments that helped scientists better understand the “Ozone Hole” problem will continue to pursue scientific knowledge vital to understanding atmospheric conditions and our ever-changing climate. And the heirs to the visionary Langley engineers who made human spaceflight and
