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Listen closely to new sounds from Mars recorded by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, including puffs and pings from a...
NASA Administrator Bridenstine stands with AFRC center director McBride by model NASA's Supersonic X-Plane, X-59...
After NASA Phoenix Mars Lander enters the Martian atmosphere, and is traveling at about 1.7 times the speed of...
NASA Armstrong’s Flight research center is honoring 75 years of advancing technology and science through flight. For...
NASA’s 2017 astronaut candidates (L to R) Jessica Watkins, Zena Cardman, Kayla Barron toured aircraft hangar at...
NASA’s 2017 astronaut candidates (L to R) Raja Chari, Bob Hines, Joshua Kutryk, Jasmin Moghbeli, Jonny Kim, and...
Accelerating to speeds of nearly Mach 9.8, or 7,000 miles per hour, NASA's supersonic combustion ramjet or scramjet,...
NASA’s efforts to prepare for future sound data recording of the agency’s quiet, supersonic X-59 aircraft are making...
In 1947, the American rocket-powered X-1 experimental aircraft broke the sound barrier. X-1 team members from the...
A close-up view of the front end of a Pegasus rocket booster being prepared by technicians at the Dryden Flight...
Technicians prepare a Pegasus rocket booster for flight tests with the X-43A "Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle," or...
Jonathan Lopez works on a hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in...
Jonathan Lopez and Allen Parker confer on the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensor System at NASA’s Armstrong Flight...
Jonathan Lopez prepares the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System for vibration tests in the Environmental...
Jonathan Lopez prepares the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System for vibration tests in the Environmental...
Jonathan Lopez and Nathan Rick prepare the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System for vibration tests in the...
The engine that will power NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 in flight is installed, marking a major milestone in the...
A quality inspector inspects the GE F-414 engine nozzle after installation at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility...
This image shows the X-59’s engine inlet from the aft view, which is the rear of the airplane, looking forward. Once...
A quality inspector checks NASA’s X-59 aircraft during the construction phase. The X-59 was built in Lockheed...
NASA’s X-59 undergoes a structural stress test at Lockheed Martin’s facility at Fort Worth, Texas. The X-59 is a...
NASA’s X-59 is lowered into the test fixture as it prepares to undergo structural stress tests at Lockheed Martin in...
NASA’s X-59 undergoes a structural stress test at Lockheed Martin’s facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The X-59’s nose...
NASA’s X-59 undergoes a structural stress test at a Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The X-59’s nose...