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The administration published a safety alert outlining planning considerations for operators amid increased launches.

Aircraft will support X-59 quiet supersonic flight testing at Armstrong.

Data from automated Caravan tests to inform national standards work.

Intended to be a quiet supersonic jet, NASA’s X-59 aims to reshape the future of faster-than-sound travel

Agency integrates Starlink on Gulfstream G5.

Veteran astronaut led four missions, including NASA’s famed “successful failure.”

The NASA-SpaceX Crew-6 mission made a safe return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, splashing down off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev spent 186 days in space for Crew-6. The mission was the […]

NASA’s Glenn Research Center is holding a one-day event next month designed to showcase several of the agency’s current aviation-related projects. Part of the 2023 Energy & Mobility Conference and Expo, NASA Aviation Day will feature the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QuessT) mission, electric aircraft propulsion and “new ways to move people and cargo using […]

Boeing’s Starliner program has been dealt another delay. The first manned flight of the “astronaut taxi” was previously scheduled for July 21 but by early June was delayed “indefinitely” as the company found new issues with the Starliner’s wiring and parachute system. While NASA officials were hopeful that the launch could be rescheduled for this […]

NASA announced on Monday that the aircraft to be produced through its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project will be the agency’s next X-Plane. Designated the X-66A, the modified MD-90 will feature “long, thin wings with engines mounted underneath and a set of aerodynamic trusses for support.” Designed to “inform a potential new generation of more sustainable […]