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The ALOFT mission, Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly’s eye simulator and Terrestrial gamma ray flashes, is a...
A NASA remotely piloted Global Hawk aircraft completes a flight in February 2015 to support the National Oceanic and...
The Gulf of Mexico as seen from NASA photographer Carla Thomas at high altitude in the F/A-18 research aircraft...
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Flight Loads Laboratory in Edwards, California, is working on one of its...
A NASA F/A-18 is towed to the apron at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California during sunrise...
jsc2021e048162 (Oct. 26, 2021) --- SpaceX Crew-3 astronaut Raja Chari from NASA boards NASA's Gulfstream V research...
NASA’s project manager for the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project, Cathy Bahm, poses in front of the agency’s X-59...
NASA’s structures lead for the X-59, Dr. Walt Silva, poses in front of the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic research...
The Gulf of Mexico as seen from NASA photographer Carla Thomas at high altitude in the F/A-18 research aircraft...
NASA space shuttle Columbia hitched a ride on a special 747 carrier aircraft for the flight from Palmdale,...
NASA’s mission integration manager for the Quesst mission, Peter Coen, poses in front of the agency’s X-59 quiet...
S84-37522 (18 July 1984) --- Astronaut Jon A. McBride, center, floats briefly aboard a NASA KC-135 aircraft during a...
Sea ice is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Bellingshausen Sea...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A truck delivers an F-104 Starfighter, formerly of the Italian Air Force, to Starfighters...
The ALOFT mission, Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly’s eye simulator and Terrestrial gamma ray flashes, is a...
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Vice President and General Manager John Clark speaks on stage prior to the unveiling of...
The ALOFT mission, Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly’s eye simulator and Terrestrial gamma ray flashes, is a...
The ALOFT mission, Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly’s eye simulator and Terrestrial gamma ray flashes, is a...
European Space Agency's 'Jules Verne' Automated Transfer Vehicle ATV-1 re-entry in Earth's atmosphere over Pacific...
NASA’s chief engineer for the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project, Jay Brandon, poses in front of the agency’s X-59...
The Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) is the longest running, icing facility in the world and has been in operation since...
Lit by sunlight filtered through the smoke of a distant forest fire, the Space Shuttle Atlantis receives post-flight...
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits in position inside a hangar at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in...
jsc2021e048160 (Oct. 26, 2021) --- SpaceX Crew-3 astronaut Matthias Maurer from ESA (European Space Agency) boards...