NASA's X-59 QueSST is collecting flight data that could provide the first scientific basis for overturning the FAA's 53-year ban on overland supersonic flight.
VectorDream Chaser carries six decades of NASA lifting body research into commercial spaceflight, designed to return from orbit and land on a runway like an aircraft.
VectorNASA quietly removed SR-71 Blackbird tail number 844 from static display at Armstrong Flight Research Center, fueling speculation about a possible return to flight.
TowerNASA-funded Wayfarer demonstrator tests retractable electric props and blown-wing technology on a Cessna 182, potentially cutting stall speeds by 30–40%.
TowerNASA's SOFIA program flew a modified Boeing 747-SP as a functioning infrared telescope from 2010 to 2022, culminating in the discovery of water on the Moon's sunlit surface.
VectorNASA's Shuttle Training Aircraft - a modified Gulfstream II - prepared shuttle commanders for the orbiter's 22-degree, no-go-around final approach using real aerodynamics in real airspace.
VectorNASA's new 'Vomit Comet,' a Boeing 737-700 registered N837NA, once flew as a secretive U.S. Air Force testbed before joining the Artemis program.
TowerNASA and Boeing's X-66A tests a long, strut-braced wing that could cut single-aisle jet fuel burn by up to 30%.
VectorHow NASA turned a Gulfstream II business jet into the Shuttle Training Aircraft to teach astronauts the impossible one-shot landing.
VectorNASA and Lockheed's X-59 Quesst turns the sonic boom into a soft thump, aiming to overturn the 1973 ban on supersonic flight over land.
VectorHow Sierra Space's Dream Chaser launches vertically on a rocket and glides home to a runway like an airliner - and why it still hasn't flown.
VectorNASA is building the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley, its first new flight-dynamics wind tunnel in 40 years.
TowerThe Senate Commerce Committee advanced S.1759 to end the 1973 ban on overland civil supersonic flight, tied to a no-boom standard.
TowerNASA's X-59 aims to replace the sonic boom with a quiet 'thump,' reopening overland supersonic flight banned since 1973.
VectorOn May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space during a 15-minute suborbital flight that changed the course of history.
TaildraggerNASA's X-59 Quesst aims to reshape sonic booms into quiet thumps, potentially ending the 50-year ban on overland supersonic flight.
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