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A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air…
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You’d think a NASA aerospace engineer who spends her days inside a giant dome researching how to make plane engines…
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At a simulated 27,500 feet inside an altitude chamber at NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) facility, engineers at magniX recently…
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NASA and its international partners are using the same generically shaped wing design to create physical and digital research models…
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This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA will fly aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California…
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This ARMD solicitations page compiles the opportunities to collaborate with NASA’s aeronautical innovators and/or contribute to their research to enable…
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The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, team, with their project titled “Aero-Quake Emergency Response Network,” took first place at the…
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NASA, alongside industry, will soon begin designing a new jet engine concept for the next generation of ultra-efficient airliners —…
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NASA has created a new digital modelling tool for aeronautical engineers to innovate new aircraft designs, building on decades of…
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NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of…
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After flying more than three decades and 158 science campaigns, just one flight remains. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory will…
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NASA’s DC-8 aircraft – the world’s largest flying science laboratory – began its science missions in 1987 and since then,…
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NASA’s investment in a breakthrough superalloy developed for the extreme temperatures and harsh conditions of air and spaceflight is on…
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NASA works on projects that often have never been done, or perhaps the way they are being done has never…
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Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully…
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NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have established a research transition team to guide the development of wildland fire…
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Riding in the back seat of a car can be boring. Riding in the back of a NASA aircraft is…
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The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and…
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After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency’s…
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A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to…
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Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool…
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Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to…
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NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric…
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As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the…
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NASA has issued new grants to five universities to help develop education plans for the community overflight phase of the…
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Virtual Recognition Ceremony Join the Dream with Us Recognition Ceremony to celebrate the students dreaming with NASA about the future…
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NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is unique – it’s designed to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without causing…
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Engineering is a huge field with endless applications. From aerospace to ergonomics, engineers play an important role in designing, building,…
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Supersonic flight became a reality in October 1947, when the Bell X-1 rocket plane broke the sound barrier. NASA’s Lewis…
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NASA has selected another five university teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges that could help transform flight in…