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When University of New Mexico alumnus David McBride first came to NASA’s remote outpost in the Mojave Desert in 1982 as a cooperative education student, he didn’t imagine becoming its center director. “I was expecting to be here for one semester, but...
F-15 ACTIVE: This Frankenstein Fighter Was Better Than the F-15 Eagle NASA's ACTIVE program resulted in a Frankenstein fighter with a variety of components and systems that managed to make the legendary F-15 even better. The F-15 has long been a legendary fighter, but NASA’s ACTIVE program aimed to make it even better. Faced with the looming threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, the United States began testing next-generation capabilities before the 10th F-15 even rolled off the assembly line. In the 44 years since the F-15 Eagle first entered service, the air superiority fighter...