Langley Research Center

American mathematician and aerospace engineer

NASA field center

1984 experiment involving purposeful crash of a Boeing 720, carried out for NASA and the FAA

Senior NASA official-administrator and engineering researcher

World War II-era American air-to-air missile project

OpenVSP (also Open Vehicle Sketch Pad) is an open-source parametric aircraft geometry tool originally developed by NASA. It can be used to create 3D models of aircraft and to support engineering analysis of those models.