Aeronautics

Aeronautics
Welcome to NASA Aeronautics’ live update page with news about NASA events and other festivities taking place throughout the week at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, which we simply call Oshkosh. The End of the Runway  Saturday, July 27 at 6 p.m. EDT  With the show coming to a close tomorrow, our live coverage of NASA’s […]
Posted July 28, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research
Human Space Travel Research
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Technology Demonstration
Technology Demonstration Missions Program
White Sands Test Facility
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International Space Station and back for the first time using optical, or laser, communications. The feat was part of a series of tests on new technology that could provide live video coverage of astronauts on the Moon […]
Posted July 24, 2024
Aeronautics
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Innovation
Green Aviation Tech
NASA Aircraft
Sustainable Flight Demonstrator
NASA’s X-66 aircraft, the centerpiece of its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is taking the term “sustainable” to heart by reusing an old MD-90 cockpit as a base for its new X-66 simulator. When airplanes are retired, they often wind up in “boneyards” — storage fields where they spend years being picked over for parts by […]
Posted July 23, 2024
Aeronautics
Each summer, aviation enthusiasts and experts from around the planet – including NASA’s aeronautical innovators – descend into a regional airport near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to attend the Experimental Aviation Association’s AirVenture Oshkosh.
Posted July 19, 2024
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Air Traffic Management - Exploration
Air Traffic Solutions
Airspace Operations and Safety Program
Just like your smartphone navigation app can instantly analyze information from many sources to suggest the best route to follow, a NASA-developed resource is now making data available to help the aviation industry do the same thing.
Posted July 13, 2024
Astronauts
Aeronautics
Former Astronauts
Retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Joe Engle died July 10, surrounded by his family at home in Houston. Among his many honors, he is the only astronaut to pilot both the X-15 and space shuttle. He was 91. Engle became an astronaut at age 32 while flying the X-15 for the […]
Posted July 12, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Mobility
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Drones & You
Flight Innovation
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology
A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air taxi rides and collect data that will help designers create new aircraft with passenger comfort in mind.
Posted June 27, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Aeronautics
Careers
People of NASA
Women at NASA
You’d think a NASA aerospace engineer who spends her days inside a giant dome researching how to make plane engines quieter and spacecraft systems more efficient would have a pretty booked schedule. Still, advocacy and mentoring, especially for women and girls in STEM, is something Danielle Koch always tries to say yes to. For decades, […]
Posted June 20, 2024
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Electrified Powertrain Flight Demo
Glenn Research Center
Green Aviation Tech
Integrated Aviation Systems Program
At a simulated 27,500 feet inside an altitude chamber at NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) facility, engineers at magniX recently demonstrated the capabilities of a battery-powered engine that could help turn hybrid electric flight into a reality.   This milestone, completed in April 2024, marks the end of the first phase in a series of altit
Posted June 18, 2024
Aeronautics
Flight Innovation
Transformational Tools Technologies
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
NASA and its international partners are using the same generically shaped wing design to create physical and digital research models to better understand how air moves around an aircraft during takeoff and landing.
Posted June 17, 2024
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