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A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air…
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Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information…
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Students from a minority-serving university in California are helping solve challenges of autonomous systems for future drone operations on Earth…
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NASA’s Flight Opportunities program sent two university payloads on suborbital flight tests onboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on June 8…
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NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of…
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After flying more than three decades and 158 science campaigns, just one flight remains. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory will…
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NASA’s DC-8 aircraft – the world’s largest flying science laboratory – began its science missions in 1987 and since then,…
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NASA works on projects that often have never been done, or perhaps the way they are being done has never…
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Riding in the back seat of a car can be boring. Riding in the back of a NASA aircraft is…
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After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency’s…
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Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool…
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In honor of Women’s History Month, we recently sat down with Kari Alvarado, lead management analyst and Dryden Aeronautical Test…
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In honor of Women’s History Month, we recently sat down with Denise Ryan, flight management specialist and member of the…
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The National Space Council hosted the Women in Space Roundtable on Tuesday, March 12, and Deputy Center Director Laurie Grindle…
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In honor of Women’s History Month, we recently sat down with Sarah Mann, public affairs specialist and member of the…
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NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric…
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As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the…
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NASA Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover met with Edwards Air Force Base school-age children at a joint NASA and Air…
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NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is unique – it’s designed to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without causing…
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Supersonic flight became a reality in October 1947, when the Bell X-1 rocket plane broke the sound barrier. NASA’s Lewis…
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NASA and international researchers are studying the air quality in Asia as part of a global effort to better understand…
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In late October, two research helicopters from the manufacturer Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, made a dozen test flights over…
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NASA is announcing 60 winning teams for its third TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest to engage students in technology,…
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What: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft will fly over Central Valley and surroundings areas as part of an air…
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NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims…
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Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s X-59 aircraft is heading out of the hangar – preparing to embark on…
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German Escobar works on a model aircraft wing structure that has two long sides and bars in between, which resembles…
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Editor’s Note: This advisory was revised Thursday, Jan. 11, to include a new contact for reporters wishing to participate in…
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It’s almost time for NASA’s supersonic X-59 airplane to make its red, white, and blue public debut, and you’re invited…