NASA Aeronautics Virtual Backgrounds

Take video calls from your home or office in the cockpit of an aircraft! Use NASA Aeronautics virtual backgrounds for your next video call and mesmerize your team, class, family and friends with images of you seated next to the X-15 research aircraft or the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft – or even from the X-59 cockpit! Our many options allow you to switch from aircraft cockpit to a drone-filled cityscape to the inside of a wind tunnel meeting-to-meeting.

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NASA’s X‑59 lifts from the runway on its first flight, with a desert landscape in the background.

NASA’s X-59 lifts off from the runway for its first flight on October 28, 2025. The X-59 took off from the U.S. Air Force’s Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, and landed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

NASA’s X‑59 during its first flight with a NASA F‑18 serving as the safety chase.

NASA’s X-59 flies alongside a NASA F-18 aircraft during its first flight on October 28, 2025.

A closeup of NASA’s X59 tail section inside a hangar with the U.S. flag in the background.

NASA’s X-59 sits inside a hangar at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, following its first flight on October 28, 2025.

Sunlight shines across NASA’s X-59 tail section, showing the aircraft number and NASA logo against a partly cloudy sky.

NASA’s X-59 is pictured on the ramp under a cloudy sky.

NASA’s X-59 is parked on a ramp at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

Sunrise is seen in the background as the X-59 undergoes an engine run test.

NASA’s X-59 undergoes an engine run test at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

Rays of light pass through the X-59’s canopy during an engine run test.

NASA’s X-59 undergoes an engine run test as the sun rises at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.N

NASA’s X-59 flies above Rogers Dry Lakebed.

NASA’s X-59 flies over the Rogers Dry Lakebed during a test flight.

NASA’s X-59 takes off during its third flight with mountains in the distance.

NASA’s X-59 takes off from Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California for a test flight over the Mojave Desert.

NASA’s X-59 flies over the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California’s high desert.

NASA’s X-59 passes over the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California during a test flight.

NASA’s X‑59 flies at high altitude under a dark blue sky above the desert landscape.

NASA’s X-59 flies at a high altitude during a test flight over the Mojave Desert in California.

Colorful shock diamonds are seen as NASA’s X-59 conducts engine run test.

NASA’s X-59 lights up the night sky with its unique Mach diamonds, also known as shock diamonds, during maximum afterburner testing at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California.