The X-59 QueSST aims to be the first supersonic aircraft to reduce the "boom" to a "thumb" and overcome one of the great ...

NASA wants to make supersonic flight quieter and engineers in Cleveland are helping to make that happen. The X-59 plane took its first flight in October.

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NASA’s experimental X-59 has finally traded the hangar for the sky, marking a historic first flight that could rewrite the rules for how fast passenger jets move over land. The ultra-quiet research ...

At the end of October 2025, American space agency NASA finally flew, for the first time, its brand-new X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. It was a rather short, unspectacular flight, but it ...

The US Air Force has given NASA two retired F-15 jets to boost the space agency’s supersonic flight research capabilities. The F-15, the Air Force’s primary fighter jet aircraft and interception ...

Two F-15Ds of the Oregon Air National Guard have been transferred to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, where they will join the ones already operated by the agency. NASA has announced on Jan.

One of NASA's high-altitude WB-57 research jet made a fiery wheels-up landing on Tuesday (Jan. 27) after a mechanical issue ...

Not content to watch these young whippersnapper planes take all the glory, the F-15s will be kitted out with sensory and data ...

HAMPTON, Va. — NASA is in the process of testing a new, experimental aircraft designed to achieve supersonic flight… but without the loud, sonic boom. The X-59 QUESST — short for Quiet SuperSonic ...

Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.

NASA's first tragedy is recalled annually at Launch Complex 34. This year is different, as the Artemis II mission sits on the ...