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Flight test files: Boeing 727 – The NASA wake vortex trials of 1973

NASA Boeing 727 tests in the 1970s revealed how wake vortices affect smaller aircraft, shaping modern separation rules for ...

5 takeaways from NASA’s biggest test in decades

Amid what some call a new space race, the historic journey around the moon tested a spacecraft that had never before been ...

NASA to resume supersonic aircraft tests. Here's what to know

NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight ...
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NASA designates botched Boeing Starliner test flight a ‘Type A mishap’ in new report

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is seen docked to the International Space Station's Harmony module. - NASA The botched test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft — a protracted saga that kept ...

A cracked heat shield rattled NASA after Artemis I. Now, Artemis II will put the fix to the test

When Artemis II reenters earth's atmosphere, NASA will test out a new trajectory, calculated after the heat shield for its ...
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NASA’s X-59 Returns To Flight After False Positive Cockpit Warning

This article is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report part of Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN), and is complimentary through Apr 07, 2026. For information on becoming an AWIN Member ...

'Howl at the moon': NASA's bid to boost space enthusiasm

When NASA flight director Zebulon Scoville was working a shift during the uncrewed Artemis I test flight, he realized the US ...

Artemis II astronauts return to Earth, capping historic NASA mission, in photos

Four astronauts took off on a flight around the moon in what is humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century and ...