NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more ...

Can you imagine flying from New York to Los Angeles in less than 15 minutes? Although it seems incredible, there is an aircraft capable of this feat: meet ...

NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on September 22, 2025. The 10 candidates, pictured here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are: U.S. Army CW3 Ben Bailey ...

The candidates will complete two years of training before becoming eligible for flight assignments to low Earth orbit, the ...

Prior to selection, she served as the director of flight test engineering based in Savannah ...

Adam Fuhrmann's journey to becoming an astronaut is a testament to his dedication and extensive training. Prior to his selection, he accumulated over 2,100 flight hours across 27 different aircraft, ...

Key Points and Summary – NASA and Grumman’s X-29 was a 1980s–90s technology demonstrator that flipped convention with forward-swept wings and canards to probe extreme maneuvering and ...

The candidates have to do two years of training before they're eligible for flight assignments supporting future missions to ...

Ben Bailey has 2,000 hours of flight time, including with high-profile military helicopters. The NASA astronaut candidate may be able to leverage that experience for moon landings.

Optical engineering is a field that thrives on precision and creativity. It requires scientists to design systems that push ...

Discoveries that prove aliens have visited Earth The persistent human fascination with extraterrestrial life and the ...

Optics and photonics industry players gathered in Washington, DC, on 18 September for the fourth annual SPIE Photonics Industry Summit. With more than one hundred industry leaders in attendance, the ...