The media is invited to NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, July 31, to attend a press tour and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Flight Dynamics Research Center, the agency’s first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years. The event will include a brief media availability with: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman Dr.
NASA researchers recently subjected a new wing design, which appears long and thin with a lightweight structural design, to a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found encouraged them about the wing’s potential, even as they pushed it beyond its intended limits. The 15-foot Structural Wing Experiment Evaluating Armor Reinforcement
Testing new aerospace concepts in flight remains one of NASA’s most effective ways to advance knowledge and reduce risk. The Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, supports this mission by using small, autonomous, remotely piloted aircraft as cost-effective platforms to mature innovative ideas, accelerate learning, and
In honor of America’s 250th birthday, two of NASA’s most iconic aircraft received a new coat of red, white and blue paint ahead of a flyover over Washington on July 4, 2026, with other NASA aircraft. An F-15 and an F/A-18 at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, were recently repainted in patriotic
Nobody wants to get on an uncomfortable plane. NASA’s research could help the emerging industry of air taxis (small vertical takeoff and landing aircraft intended for short trips) understand the relationship between comfort and willingness to fly. That’s where NASA comes in, with data that can help identify how to plan air taxi trips that
NASA flight photographers capture history from a perspective few experience, getting a rare bird’s-eye view of the agency’s missions in action. His photographs document key NASA research and give the public a front-row seat to the work being done behind the scenes. Jim Ross, a photographer at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California,