Although the Space Shuttle was capable of rocket-powered rides to space, it required the help of a Boeing 747 for earthbound ...
The SR-71 Blackbird is a legend in the world of military aircraft, and NASA may have received one a bit earlier than it was ...
The fastest air-breathing vehicle ever built was the NASA X-43. Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft measured 12 ...
The X-59 has flown on nine more occasions, most recently on April 14 when it accomplished some of its biggest feats to date while cruising over the Mojave Desert in California. This time around, ...
Key Points - NASA's X-43A hypersonic research vehicle, part of the "Hyper-X" program, still holds the world record for an air-breathing aircraft, achieving a speed of Mach 9.64 (6,363 mph) in its ...
NASA's new experimental aircraft will go thump in the night – that's the plan, anyway. The X-59, set to be unveiled in Palmdale, California, on Friday, is designed to turn the volume down on ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA and Boeing are pausing the development of the X-66 full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator. Instead, they will re-focus ...
During the next 12 days, you may notice a NASA flight overhead. No, it’s not heading into outer space — more like the space above Interstate 95. A NASA aircraft will fly over the I-95 corridor from ...
NASA’s high-altitude WB-57 aircraft departs July 8, 2025, from Ellington Field in Houston. Two high-altitude aircraft from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston were deployed to the Texas Hill ...
NASA's aircraft cockpit window replacement, a 4k video screen, completes its testing and is now on its way for installation. NASA’s aircraft cockpit window will be replaced with a 4K video screen. Its ...
A NASA aircraft that was used to prepare the space agency's Gemini and Apollo ground stations has now "taken off" as a popular collectible. MotoArt on Thursday (April 27) is releasing its latest, ...