The X-59's cockpit, ejection seat and canopy come from a T-38 "Falon" training jet and the landing gear from an F-16 "Falcon" fighter jet. The research aircraft (X-plane) is 100 feet long (30.4 ...

As the International Space Station whizzed over Mexico and the United States — before floodwaters catastrophically rose in ...

Proficiency training for flight has been baked into NASA astronaut protocols from the dawn of the program, after the first astronauts (all pilots) were hired in 1959.

On Wednesday, a DC-8 jet, which belonged to NASA and served as the first and largest flying science laboratory for 37 years, landed at Idaho State University's Aircraft Maintenance Technology ...

NASA's X-59 Quesst is designed to minimize sonic booms so that commercial supersonic flight can undergo a resurgence in the next 10 years. How NASA's X-59 Supersonic Jet Replaced the Boom With a ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Laurie Leshin, the new boss at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, showed up recently at the Mars Yard, where engineers test rovers by forcing them to navigate their way up ...

Two of NASA's WB-57 jet planes will follow the eclipse as it traces its path of totality across the U.S., training special instruments on the sheathed sun's outer atmosphere, or corona.

NASA is conducting research on a supersonic aircraft with the capability to travel from New York City to London in an astonishingly short amount of time - just 90 minutes.. A jet similar to the ...