NASA Lab Builds New Aircraft to Support Complex Flight Research

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is building a new subscale aircraft to support…

NASA, Partners Push Forward with Remotely Piloted Airspace Integration 

NASA and its partners recently tested a tool for remotely piloted operations that could enable operators…

NASA, War Department Partnership Tests Boundaries of Autonomous Drone Operations

Through an ongoing collaboration, NASA and the Department of War are working to advance the future…

NASA’s X-59 Moves Toward First Flight at Speed of Safety

As NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft approaches first flight, its team is mapping every…

NASA Tests Tools to Assess Drone Safety Over Cities

A future with advanced air mobility aircraft populating the skies will require the U.S. to implement…

Epic Research Can Help Mars Missions

The parachute of the Enhancing Parachutes by Instrumenting the Canopy, or EPIC, test experiment deploys following…

NASA’s X-59 Nears First Flight

As we honor the legacy of aviation pioneers this National Aviation Day, NASA’s X-59 is preparing…

National Aviation Day: Celebrating NASA’s Heritage While Charting Our Future

As we observe National Aviation Day Tuesday – a tribute to Orville Wright’s birthday – let’s…

NASA Invites You to Celebrate National Aviation Day 2025

The first “A” in NASA stands for Aeronautics – so naturally that means today, Aug. 19,…

NASA Tests Research Aircraft to Improve Air Taxi Flight Controls

Flying the friendly skies may one day include time-saving trips in air taxis to get from…