This enhanced-color image shows a small portion of a dark crater floor in the Tyrrhena Terra region of Mars.
Impact ejecta is material that is thrown up and out of the surface of a planet as a result of…
NASA Langley Research Center centennial emblem
Breaking the Sound Barrier, part of the NACA/NASA Langley Research Center centennial celebration — A Storied Legacy, A Soaring Future.…
NASA Langley tested versions of the X-43 engine before it established the Guinness World record for fastest air breathing hypersonic…
One of the first breakthroughs that allowed supersonic flight was in wind tunnel design. Langley researchers added slots (right) to…
Before Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 in 1947 models were tested in…
Guy Kemmerly prepares an early Boeing High Speed Civil Transport model for low-speed testing in the NASA Langley 14-by 22-Foot…
Aerodynamicist Richard Whitcomb helped paved the way for supersonic flight by narrowing the fuselage in what’s known as the area…
This week in 1964, SA-5, the fifth Saturn I launch vehicle launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
