
2017 Astronauts Tour Hangar at Armstrong Flight Research Center
NASA’s 2017 astronaut candidates toured aircraft hangar at Armstrong Flight Research Center, in Southern California where they checked out a F-15 cockpit. The center is using its fleet of supersonic research support aircraft for sonic boom research, including the F-15, which will fly in tandem with the X-59 QueSST during early flight test stages, and the F-18, which is conducting supersonic research in support of the overall mission.
Image Credit: NASA/Lauren Hughes
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TakenJune 26, 2019
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