NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center 2020 

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Despite challenges with the global pandemic, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California continued to support the agency in 2020 by safely advancing flight research in a mostly remote environment. Armstrong completed critical maintenance and flight training required to preserve its research mission. With innovative thinking and electronic meeting tools, a number of tasks were enabled. Among them, Armstrong answered the call to come up with innovative ideas to solve possible shortages of critical medical equipment; supported the agency’s efforts to land the first woman and next man on the lunar surface; continued its Flight Opportunities mission to advance technologies that address NASA mission goals; reached critical milestones in the development of NASA’s first crewed X-planes in more than 20 years; forged ahead with its research of unmanned aircraft; and helped NASA scientists make breakthrough discoveries in the cosmos with SOFIA.