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Artist illustration of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft in flight.

NASA's Junior Pilot Program: X-59 Cover with Orville the Flying Squirrel Mascot standing in front of an image of the X-59 in flight.

X-59 Snowflake made out of paper.

Quesst Supersonic STEM Toolkit

The Quesst Supersonic STEM Toolkit provides educators and students with cross-curricular content related to NASA’s Quesst mission and the science of sound for students pre-K through 12. A Spanish-language section is also included.

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Build It!

NASA employee running experiment with two plastic cups on either end of a paper towel empty roll with a cell phone in the middle.

Sound Effect

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Image of the X-59 3D Printing graphic. Left image is with the 3D print on a stand. Right image is without a stand.

X-59 3D Printing

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Artist illustration of the X-59 (vehicle used for the Quesst mission) in flight over water and land.

X-59 Paper Desktop Model

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Artist concept of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane, or QueSST.

3..2..1..Take Off! Create Your Very Own X-Plane

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X-59 paper airplane image from the Make Your Own X-59 activity.

Make Your Own X-59

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Explore It!

Flight Log Experience Card, with various aircraft and clouds as well as striped airmail lines.

Flight Log Experience

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Screaming String Activity

Screaming String

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Seeing Sound Activity

Seeing Sound

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An animation of white soundwaves fluctuating in front of a still graphic of a large robot. The robot is a large gold box shape with a circular, silver connector on the front. Other equipment is visible behind the robot, in front of a black background.

Senses of Sound

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First Phase of X-48B Flight Tests Completed

Four Forces of Flight

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Hands pluck a rubber band that is wrapped around a book and two pencils that are below a ruler on the table

Good Vibrations

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Adeline Dinehart showing how to do the fan-tastic-forces activity.

Fan-tastic Forces

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A mobile citizen science app to collect and submit levels of ambient noise

NASA's Lower the Boom Citizen Science Activity

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Watch It!

Screen shot from the video showing a man standing next to an X-Plane.

History of X-Planes

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NASA employee demonstrating the supplies needed to do the Zoom Without the Boom demo activity.

Zoom Without the Boom

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NASA flew a B-200, outfitted with an updated imaging system, at around 30,000 feet while the pair of T-38s were required to not only remain in formation, but to fly at supersonic speeds at the precise moment they were directly beneath the B-200.

NASA STEM Stars: Low Boom Flight Demonstration

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Host Danni Washington from Nature Knows Best wears headphones along with NASA Aerospace Engineer Danielle Koch listening to jet engine sounds.

Nature Knows Best: Sound and GRC Acoustics Engineer Danielle Koch

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NASA 60th: The Leading Edge of Flight

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Maria Caballero standing near a building with an airplane in the background.

NASA Modern Figures Maria Caballero

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Small Steps Giant Leap's host on the Sonic Booms and the X-59. She is wearing a blue shirt with a NASA meatball on the right of her shirt. She is standing inside a hangar.

Sonic Booms and the X-59

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In several years, the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane, or QueSST, will test its quiet supersonic technologies by flying

The X-59 and How Sound Travels

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A NASA employee demonstrating when you touch the rubberband that is attached to the red cup, it will make a sound.

Senses of Sound Activity Demo

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Lindsay Thornton, Education Specialist at NASA Langley Research Center demonstrates the sound effects activity demo.

Sound Effects Activity Demo

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Adeline Dinehart, NASA Education Specialist will demonstrate how to do the Fan-tastic Forces Activity Demo.

Fan-tastic Forces Activity Demo

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Solve It!

X-59 airplane made from plotting points on a graph.

Graph the X-59

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Hidden Words Activity

Hidden Words: Puzzle and Answer Key

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Noise: Speed of Sound (9-12) cover showing a silhouette of an aircraft in flight in a duotone color.

Speed of Sound

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X-59 Crossword Puzzle

X-59 Crossword Puzzle

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Cover of “NASA's Lower the Boom Citizen Science Activity”

NASA's Lower the Boom Citizen Science Activity

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Color It!

The X-59 Coloring page shows a black and white drawing of the X-59 airplane

X-59 Coloring Page

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X-1 coloring page in flight among clouds and a sun.

X-1 Coloring Page

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SSBD coloring page in flight among clouds and a sun.

SSBD Coloring Page

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F/A-18 coloring page in flight among clouds and a sun.

F/A-18

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The X-15 and B-52 coloring page in flight among clouds and a sun.

Coloring Page X-15 and B-52

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Read It!

Host Danni Washington from Nature Knows Best wears headphones along with NASA Aerospace Engineer Danielle Koch listening to jet engine sounds.

Danielle Koch Leveled Readers

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Maria Caballero standing near a building with an airplane in the background.

Maria Caballero Leveled Readers

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Illustration of a twin-engine commercial airliner sitting on the ground surrounded by text highlighting use of NASA-developed aeronautics technology.

NASA AeroTech Mini Posters

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NASA e-Books

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NASA employee demonstrating the supplies needed to do the Zoom Without the Boom demo activity.

Zoom Without the Boom

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A blue and pink background of clouds with a white circle in the middle and the X-59 artist illustration in flight. Below it the text says, Quesst Quiet Supersonic Flight over land.

X-59 Quiet Supersonic Flight Over Land

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Craft It!

X-59 Snowflake made out of paper.

X-59 Snowflake

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Artist illustration of the X-59 (vehicle used for the Quesst mission) in flight over water and land.

X-59 Paper Desktop Model

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Color by Number (this one is of the Schlieren image of the X-59.

Color by Number

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Image of the X-59 3D Printing graphic. Left image is with the 3D print on a stand. Right image is without a stand.

X-59 3D Printing

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Spanish

Artist concept of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane, or QueSST.

3 … 2 … 1 … Takeoff! Create Your Very Own X-Plane

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Paper Airplane Template was used at the Vice Presiden'ts residence for a student STEM hands-on-activity.

Shape Your Flight

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Artist illustration of the X-59 (vehicle used for the Quesst mission) in flight over water and land.

X-59 Paper Desktop Model

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X-59 Coloring page.

Página para colorear X-59

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Cover of High Flyers Alphabet Activity Book

High Flyers Alphabet Activity Book

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Image of a paper airplane, the X-59.

Make Your Own X-59

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Aero Educator Resources

Celebrating the Faces of Flight poster. Top row: Susan Bell, Clayton Turner and Nils Larson. Bottom row: Donald Durston, Nicole Mann and Jasmin Moghbeli.

Celebrating the Faces of Flight

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Stack of multicolored books on blackboard with organic molecules written on.The books are placed on the right side of frame.Human DNA formulas are written on board.The focus is on the books and blackboard is blurred.The photo was shot with a full frame DSLR camera in studio lighting.

K-12 Educator Resources

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Orville's Flight Log image showing Orville at an airport with his arms spread open wide.

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate STEM

Four young students with safety glasses on working on an experiment

NASA Aeronaut-X STEM Engagement

NASA STEM Virtual Toolkit graphic that spell out STEM (S is for Science); (T is for Technology); (E is for Engineering) and (M is for Math). Each letter has various graphics representing each category.

Virtual STEM Toolkit

Illustration of an airplane with the directions of the four forces of flight labeled

Four Forces of Flight

The Quesst STEM Learning module cover, showing a boy holding a tablet with lines and drawings coming out of the tablet surrounding him. There are drawings of the X-59, math formulas and words like sound, noise, and sonic boom.

Quesst STEM Learning Module

Learn More and Get Involved

Orville's Flight Log image showing Orville at an airport with his arms spread open wide.

Aeronautics STEM

Explore hands-on activities, interactive lesson plans, educator guides, and other downloadable content about aeronautics.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronaut Tom Marshburn participates in a STEM demonstration

NASA Learning Resources

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