The center newsletter was first published on Feb. 25, 1955, as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station News. The first official X-Press newsletter was published on April 22, 1955. The X-Press was published until June 2023 and resumed publication in January 2025.
For more information, call or email Jay Levine, X-Press editor, at 661-276-3459 or Jay.Levine-1@nasa.gov, or write to P.O. Box 273, MS 1422, Edwards, CA 93523.
2026
May 2026: Truss-Braced Wing Research in Test
April 2026: NASA’s Home for Experimental Flight
March 2026: NASA Armstrong Artemis Contributions
February 2026: NASA Adds Two F-15s
January 2025: NASA Armstrong Advances Flight Research, Innovation in 2025
2025
December 2025: NASA X-59 Completes First Flight
October 2025: NASA ER-2 GEMx
September 2025: Hypersonics Research
August 2025: X-59 Low-Speed Taxi Test
June 2025: NASA Awards Top Honor to Jacob Shaw
May 2025: X-59 Shock-Sensing Probe
April 2025: Precision Landing Technology
March 2025: X-59 Electromagnetic Testing
February 2025: X-66 Model Wind Tunnel Tests
January 2025: Atmospheric Probe
2023
April 2023: Quesst
March 2023: Into the Storm
February 2023: Catching a Wave
January 2023: Accessible Travel
2022
November/December 2022: Artemis I Inspires
October 2022: Sensational SOFIA
August/September 2022: Final Flight
June/July 2022: Safe Travels
May 2022: Sustainable Aviation
April 2022: ER-2 Mission Ready
March 2022: Exciting Flights
February 2022: Heavy Lifting
January 2022: Seeing Shock Waves
2021
December 2021: James Webb Telescope Launches
November 2021: X-59 is Coming Together
October 2021: 75 Years of Excellence
September 2021: Center Marks 75 Years
September 2021 Interactive Edition: Center Marks 75 Years
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August 2021: X-59 Advances
June 2021: New Aircraft Proposed
May 2021: X-56B Begins New Flight Series
April 2021: Columbia Landed Here in 1981
April 2021 EP PDF: Mars Rover Delivered
April 2021 EP Interactive Edition: Mars Rover Delivered
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March 2021: Perserverance Successfully Lands on Mars
February 2021: Armstrong Assists with Orion
January 2021: DC-8 Returns to Flight
2020
December 2020 EP pdf: X-59 Assembly Team Marks Wing Milestone
December 2020 EP Interactive Edition: X-59 Assembly Team Marks Wing Milestone
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December 2020: SCHAMROQ is Prepping the Tools for Supersonic Research
November 2020: SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Areas of the Moon
October 2020: UAS Could Deliver Vital Organs, Blood
September 2020: X-59: NASA Marks Progress on Newest X-plane
September 2020 EP Interactive Edition: NASA Assists in Developing COVID-19 Solutions
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September 2020 EP pdf: NASA Teams up with Antelope Valley Task Force
August 2020: Perseverance Rover is on its Way
July 2020: X-57 Future Wing, Cruise Motors Advance
June 2020: We Knew Him When — Pilots Recall Going to School With Robert Behnken
May 2020: Mars Airplane — Sam Maximizes NASA Armstrong Internship
April 2020: Lending a Hand — Center Assists Community COVID-19 Response
March 2020: The Telework Bunch
January 2020: X-59 — New Experimental Jet Cleared for Final Assembly
2019
December 2019: Shock Sensing Probe
November 2019: Flight Opportunities is Enabling Landing Technology
October 2019: X-57 Arrives
September 2019: X-57 Wing Tests Complete
August 2019: Launch Abort System Test Near Flawless
June 2019: Armstrong Part of Team That Won Aviation’s Biggest Prize
May 2019: Molecule is Found — Long Search for the Universe’s First Type of Molecule is Over
April 2019: What’s It Like Nils?
March 2019: NASA, Center Budgets Solid
February 2019: Shockwave Interaction
2018
December 2018: Virgin Galactic Delivers
November 2018: Taking the Boom out of Sonic Boom
October 2018: AA-2 Effort Wrapping Up
September 2018: X-56A is on Target
August 2018: Pilots Assist with Wildfires
July 2018: Armstrong Assists on AA-2
May 2018: Can You Hear Me Now?
April 2018: Quiet Supersonic Flights 2018 on Target
March 2018: Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator Advances
February 2018: Tests Begin on X-57 Motors
January 2018: Flight Proves New Tech
2017
November 2017: SNC Lands Success
October 2017: Supersonic Flight at 70
July 2017: F-18 Bringing the Boom to Florida
June 2017: SOFIA Leads to Black Hole Discovery
May 2017: Twistable, Flexible Wing Flaps Work
April 2017: FOSS Could be Valuable to a Number of Varied Industries
March 2017: Research Begins on Laminar Flow Concept
February 2017: Dream Chaser Spacecraft Arrives for Testing and Flight Tests
January 2017: Armstrong Employees Achieved Much in 2016
2016
December 2016: Bolden Thanks Armstrong Employees for Dedication
November 2016: Global Hawk Observed Matthew During NOAA Mission
October 2016: Armstrong 70th Anniversary
August 2016: Aircraft That Will Become X-57 is Now in California
July 2016: Distributed Electric Aircraft Named X-57
June 2016: NASA Social — Supersonic and UAV Research Highlighted
May 2016: NASA Science Mission Measures Changes in the Gabon Environment
April 2016: BOSCO Impresses
March 2016: Sonic Boom Probe Flies
February 2016: New Experimental Airplane! Electric Propulsion Sceptor to Fly in 2 Years
January 2016: 2015 — NASA Armstrong Advanced Aeronautics, Science and Technology Through Flight
2015
December 2015: UP Launches Technology
November 2015: Subscale Glider Flies
September 2015: Scientists See Pluto Occultation and Rare Milky Way Views From NASA’s 747SP SOFIA Flying Observatory
June 2015: First Mars Airplane? Innovation Could Lead to Flier in 2022-24
April 2015: Second Mutt Makes First Flight
April 2015: Celebrating 100 Years of the NACA
2014
December 2014: ORION Advances
November 2014: ACTE Takes Flight
August 2014: Towed Glider Closing in on Research Flight
July 2014: Legendary test pilot William “Bill” Dana honored by friends and family at event
June 2014: Neil A. Armstrong and Hugh L. Dryden honored
March 2014: Tribute to Neil A. Armstrong and Hugh L. Dryden
January 2014: Dryden busy in 2014
2013
December 2013: A big future is in store for UAS aircraft
November 2013: SLS system evaluated
October 2013: Stellar SOFIA (HTML)
September 2013: We will miss you, Gordo
July 2013: UP reaches altitude record
May 2013: X-48 program complete
April 2013: Asteroid mission targeted
March 2013: ACCESS studies contrails
February 2013: Tomorrow’s tech today
January 2013: Smart controls save fuel
2012
December 2012: Snow and ice science
November 2012: Studying FaINT sound
October 2012: Final Flight
September 2012: Global Hawks to fly HS3
August 2012: Mars Miracle
July 2012: Collision avoidance system works
June 2012: DC-8 flies DC3 mission
May 2012: Special Deliveries: Shuttle ferry flights
May 2012: Dryden organizers showcase center at first NASA Social
April 2012: Flying the future
March 2012: Xombie rising
February 2012: Snow study resumes
January 2012: Dryden employees contributed to key missions in 2011
2011
September 2011: Shuttle Tribute
August 2011: Aerovations
April 2011: A GREAT mission
2010
December 2010: First Science
2009
October 2009: Aerovations
