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  • Artist's concept of a 2025 aircraft from the team led by The Boeing Company.

    A First Look at Flight in 2025

    NASA has just tasked three companies to look into the future and design a more "green" aircraft for 2025.

  • NASA partnered with industry many times over the years of chevron testing, including these tests of nozzles on a specially-adapted GE engine mounted on a Boeing 777. Chevron nozzles will be seen on more engines in the coming year. Image credit: The Boeing Company/Bob Ferguson

    NASA Helps Create a More Silent Night

    A NASA aeronautics researcher revisits the road to creating a simple-looking device that creates a quieter flight.

  • Amtrak train

    NASA's Reporting System Improves Railroad Safety

    From planes to trains, when you find something that works stick with it.

  • Woodrow Whitlow.

    50 Years at the TDT: Reflections and Predictions

    "Today, we are taking a long look back, but we are also taking a look forward," said Center Director Lesa Roe to a standing-room-only Reid Conference Center on Thursday for the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel (TDT) 50th anniversary celebration.

  • Alan Pope in the lab

    'Mindshift' Biofeedback Gaming Technology

    Many say playing video games rewires our brains and contributes to attention deficit disorders. What if we could use games to teach us to relax, concentrate and perform better?

  • NASA 515 in Orlando in Sept. 1992

    Wind Shear Accident Was Catalyst for Technology

    When Delta Flight 191 crashed in Dallas, Tex., in early Aug. 1985 killing 135 people, it sparked a government-industry-academia partnership that resulted in many technologies that have virtually eliminated wind shear accidents today.

  • Langley's King Air B-200.

    NASA Will Begin a Multi-Year Air Quality Campaign

    A team led by a NASA Langley scientist has just been selected to carry out a four-deployment, five-year campaign to improve the use of satellites to monitor air quality for public health and environmental benefit.

  • Jai Shin, associate administrator of aero.

    Story-Teller Shin: 'We're Producing Results'

    Jai Shin surveyed the audience in the nearly full Pearl Young Theater, noted that half of the people in the seats were summer interns and pronounced it a good time for young engineers to be coming into aeronautics.

  • Tom Shortridge, left, and Scott Bednar, co-producers of 'NASA Lauchpad,' pose with emmy

    NASA TV Program Wins Emmy

    'NASA Launchpad' won a regional Emmy award in the informational/instructional category for its 'Bernoulli's Principle' episode.

  • The SJX61-2 engine that powered the X-51A test vehicle during ground tests simulating Mach 5 flight conditions at NASA's Langley Research Center in 2008

    X-51A Makes Longest Scramjet Flight

    An engine first validated in a NASA wind tunnel successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date off the southern California coast on May 26.