Aeronautics

Ames Research Center

Langley Research Center

Finalists Selected in NASA Aeronautics Agriculture-Themed Competition

Eight finalist teams participating in the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition have been selected to present to a panel of judges their design concepts for aviation solutions that can help the agriculture industry. Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, this year’s competition asked teams of university students to re

Posted March 14, 2025

Aeronautics

Green Aviation Tech

NASA History

NASA’s Chevron Technology Quiets the Skies

Shortly after dawn on March 27, 2001, NASA pilot Bill Rieke took off from an airfield just outside of Phoenix in NASA’s blue-and-white Learjet 25 and flew low over a series of microphones for the first flight test of a groundbreaking NASA technology. On one of the plane’s engines was an experimental jagged-edged nozzle that […]

Posted March 11, 2025

University Leadership Initiative

Aeronautics

Flight Innovation

For Colleges & Universities

NASA Selects Three University Teams to Participate in Flight Research

NASA has selected three university teams to help solve 21st century aviation challenges that could transform the skies above our communities. As part of NASA’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI), both graduate and undergraduate students on faculty-led university teams will contribute directly to real-world flight research while gaining hands-o

Posted March 11, 2025

NASA History

Aeronautics

Ames Research Center

Langley Research Center

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

NASA Marks 110 Years Since Founding of Predecessor Organization

To celebrate the 110th anniversary of the organization that ultimately became NASA, the agency released a new collection of videos to highlight the history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the ways it transformed flight over four decades.

Posted March 3, 2025

Ames Research Center

Aeronautics

NASA Headquarters

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

NASA Remembers Long-Time Civil Servant John Boyd

John Boyd, known to many as Jack and whose career spanned more than seven decades in a multitude of roles across NASA as well as its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), died Feb. 20. He was 99. Born in 1925, and raised in Danville, Virginia, he was a long-time resident of Saratoga, […]

Posted February 26, 2025

Aeronautics

Langley Research Center

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Quesst: The Vehicle

Supersonic Flight

NASA’s X-59 Completes Electromagnetic Testing

NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 research aircraft has cleared electromagnetic testing, confirming its systems will work together safely, without interference across a range of scenarios. “Reaching this phase shows that the aircraft integration is advancing,” said Yohan Lin, NASA’s X-59 avionics lead.

Posted February 26, 2025

Aeronautics

Flight Innovation

University Student Research Challenge

NASA University Research Program Makes First Award to a Community College Project

Great ideas, and the talent and passion that bring them to life, can be found anywhere. In that spirit, NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC) in 2024 selected its first group of community college students to contribute original research to the agency’s transformative vision for 21st century aviation.

Posted February 24, 2025

Aeronautics

Flight Innovation

University Student Research Challenge

NASA Selects New Round of Student-Led Aviation Research Awards

NASA has selected two new university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges meant to transform the skies above our communities. The research awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides students with opportunities to contribute to NASA’s flight research goals.

Posted February 19, 2025

Aeronautics