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NASA research pilots are experts on how to achieve the right flight-test conditions for experiments and the tools needed for…
Lee esta historia en Español aquí. Born and raised in Peru, Daniel Velasquez moved to the United States when he…
Read this story in English here. Nacido y criado en Perú, Daniel Velásquez se estableció en los Estados Unidos cuando…
Felipe Valdez is someone who took advantage of every possible opportunity at NASA, working his way from undergraduate intern to…
Lee esta historia en Español aquí. Patricia Ortiz is proud to be a first-generation Salvadoran American. Her mother, born and…
Read this story in English here. Patricia Ortiz está orgullosa de ser una salvadoreña americana de primera generación. Su madre,…
In June 2024, a new tail number swept the sky above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Pilots…
For the first time, a NASA-funded researcher will fly with their experiment on a commercial suborbital rocket. The technology is…
For self-flying aircraft to take to the skies, they need to learn about their environments to avoid hazards. NASA aeronautics…
In May 2024, Idaho State University’s class of 2025 received a new learning tool from NASA. The DC-8 aircraft served…
Sabrina Redifer, a 2024 graduate of Quartz Hill High School in Lancaster, California, won a NASA College Scholarship Award. Redifer…
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The team preparing NASA’s X-59 continues through testing in preparation for the quiet supersonic aircraft to…
Operating internationally over several countries this summer, NASA’S C-20A aircraft completed more than 150 hours of science flights across two…
NASA’s X-66 aircraft, the centerpiece of its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is taking the term “sustainable” to heart by reusing…
A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air…
Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information…
Students from a minority-serving university in California are helping solve challenges of autonomous systems for future drone operations on Earth…
NASA’s Flight Opportunities program sent two university payloads on suborbital flight tests onboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on June 8…
NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of…
After flying more than three decades and 158 science campaigns, just one flight remains. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory will…
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft – the world’s largest flying science laboratory – began its science missions in 1987 and since then,…
NASA works on projects that often have never been done, or perhaps the way they are being done has never…
Riding in the back seat of a car can be boring. Riding in the back of a NASA aircraft is…
After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency’s…
Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool…
In honor of Women’s History Month, we recently sat down with Kari Alvarado, lead management analyst and Dryden Aeronautical Test…
In honor of Women’s History Month, we recently sat down with Denise Ryan, flight management specialist and member of the…
The National Space Council hosted the Women in Space Roundtable on Tuesday, March 12, and Deputy Center Director Laurie Grindle…
In honor of Women’s History Month, we recently sat down with Sarah Mann, public affairs specialist and member of the…
NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric…
