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NASA took a major step toward redefining high-speed flight on Nov. 16, 2004, when the X-43A – a small, experimental...
In the skies above NASA Armstrong in Southern California, Generation Orbit’s hypersonic pod is flight tested on...
NASA’s C-20A with Generation Orbit’s hypersonic pod attached undergoes flight test overs skies of Armstrong Flight...
NASA's B-52B aircraft over the Dryden Flight Research Center after the successful launch of the second X-43A...
An artist's rendering of the air-breathing, hypersonic X-43B, the third and largest of NASA's Hyper-X series 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...
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...
From left, April Torres and Karen Estes watch incoming data from vibration tests on the hypersonic Fiber Optic...
April Torres, from left, Cryss Punteney, and Karen Estes watch as data flows from the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing...
Surplus Navy Phoenix missiles like this one mounted on the centerline pylon of NASA's F-15B research aircraft may be...
Allen Parker, Mark Hagiwara, Paul Bean, Patrick Chan, Jonathan Lopez (seated), and Frank Pena comprise the Fiber...
The second X-43A hypersonic research vehicle, mounted under the right wing of the B-52B launch aircraft, viewed from...
The Pegasus air-launched space booster is carried aloft under the right wing of NASA's B-52 carrier aircraft on its...
NASA’s C-20A with Generation Orbit’s hypersonic testbed attached is chased by the agency’s F-18 jet for safety and...
Thomas N. Canning, Hypersonic Free-Flight Branch Chief, holds model that is fired down range in gun. Hypersonic...
Thomas N. Canning, Hypersonic Free-Flight Branch Chief, inspects breech of the counter flow section of gun....
A close-up view of the front end of a Pegasus rocket booster being prepared by technicians at the Dryden Flight...
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket drop away from NASA's B-52B...
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket left the runway, carried aloft...
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket accelerate after launch from...
Technicians prepare a Pegasus rocket booster for flight tests with the X-43A "Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle," or...