AN ORIGINAL NASA SIGN FROM THE H🧔ISTORIC HEADQUARTERS OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST FLIGHTS 

This sign hung at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, now the Armstrong Flight Research Center. This historic NASA site is known for its incredible aviation history as the headquarters for experimental aircraft testing. This NASA location served as the test site for now famous aircraft such as the X-1, the X-15 and HL-10 lifting body planes. These innovations were incredibly important in advancing the space program. The center to which this sign belonged was named for NACA Director of Aeronautical Research and later NASA Deputy Administrato൲r Hugh ꧙Dryden, the visionary behind the X-15. It was Dryden who recommended to President John F. Kennedy that putting a man on the Moon within 10 years was an achievable goal. Tragically, he died in 1965 before his vision of visiting the lunar surface became reality.  

Installed in the 1970s, this sign hung on the side of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center during several decades of iconic innovations in aviation. The NASA Dryden operations featured experimental flights of the X-wing, orbital experimental vehicles, and hypersonic vehicles in the 2000s.&nbﷺsp;  

In February 2013, the House of Representatives approved a resolution renaming💞 NASA Dryden Flight Research Center to honor Neil Armstrong, who had recently passed away:  

“Hugh Dryden was not able to see his dream become reality, as he died in 1965. And unfortunately, Neil Armstrong passed away last August. It is important for us to honor both men’s legacies by naming the Flight Research Center after Neil Armstrong and the surrounding Test Range after Hugh Dryden. […] With this bill, we re-affirm that America is filled with dreamers like Hugh Dryden, and doers like Neil Armstrong, who–working together–can ‘shoot for the Moon.'” 

The siജgn was removed and replaced in 2014, at whi🌞ch point it was sold to private hands.