{"id":804135,"date":"2026-10-27T09:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=804135"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:36:32","slug":"nasas-x-59-aircraft-and-test-pilot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=804135","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s X-59 Aircraft and Test Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASA test pilot Mike Lippert poses for a photo ahead of his first time flying the agency\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Oct. 21, 2026. The X-59 has flown numerous times since its inaugural flight in November 2025; its first supersonic flight was on June 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lippert took off from NASA\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and landed one hour later. The flight came after scheduled maintenance and a review of the X-59\u2019s systems following the aircraft\u2019s busiest week of testing to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more about Lippert and the Oct. 21 flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: NASA\/Carla Escamilla<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/nasas-x-59-aircraft-and-test-pilot\/?rand=772140\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA test pilot Mike Lippert poses for a photo ahead of his first time flying the agency\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Oct. 21, 2026. The X-59 has flown&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":804131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronautics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/804131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}