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In celebration of National Aviation History Month, experts from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, spoke with middle…
At NASA, each project has milestones to ensure everything stays on track. The agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project recently…
One year ago today, the future of space communications arrived at Earth as a beam of light from a NASA…
Picture yourself at an airport a few decades from now. What does your airliner look like? It’s more efficient, with…
The design and build of a unique NASA pod, produced to advance computer vision for autonomous aviation, was recently completed…
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s Quesst mission marked a major milestone with the start of tests on the…
NASA pilot Joe Walker sits in the pilot’s platform of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) number 1 on Oct.…
Lee esta historia en Español aquí. In September, the three NASA centers in California came together to share aerospace innovations with…
Read this story in English here. En septiembre, los tres centros de la NASA en California se reunieron para compartir…
Editor’s note: This article was published May 23, 2003, in NASA Armstrong’s X-Press newsletter. NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in…
Operating at altitudes above 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s ER-2 aircraft is the agency’s highest-flying airborne science platform. With…
In fiscal year 2023, NASA investments supported 66,208 jobs in the state of California, generated $18.5 billion in economic output…
NASA research pilots are experts on how to achieve the right flight-test conditions for experiments and the tools needed for…
Lee esta historia en Español aquí. Born and raised in Peru, Daniel Velasquez moved to the United States when he…
Read this story in English here. Nacido y criado en Perú, Daniel Velásquez se estableció en los Estados Unidos cuando…
Lee esta historia en español aquí. Felipe Valdez is someone who took advantage of every possible opportunity at NASA, working…
Lee esta historia en Español aquí. Patricia Ortiz is proud to be a first-generation Salvadoran American. Her mother, born and…
Read this story in English here. Patricia Ortiz está orgullosa de ser una salvadoreña americana de primera generación. Su madre,…
In June 2024, a new tail number swept the sky above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Pilots…
For the first time, a NASA-funded researcher will fly with their experiment on a commercial suborbital rocket. The technology is…
For self-flying aircraft to take to the skies, they need to learn about their environments to avoid hazards. NASA aeronautics…
In May 2024, Idaho State University’s class of 2025 received a new learning tool from NASA. The DC-8 aircraft served…
Sabrina Redifer, a 2024 graduate of Quartz Hill High School in Lancaster, California, won a NASA College Scholarship Award. Redifer…
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The team preparing NASA’s X-59 continues through testing in preparation for the quiet supersonic aircraft to…
Operating internationally over several countries this summer, NASA’S C-20A aircraft completed more than 150 hours of science flights across two…
NASA’s X-66 aircraft, the centerpiece of its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is taking the term “sustainable” to heart by reusing…
A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air…
Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information…
Students from a minority-serving university in California are helping solve challenges of autonomous systems for future drone operations on Earth…
NASA’s Flight Opportunities program sent two university payloads on suborbital flight tests onboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on June 8…
