Flight Innovation

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA, Notre Dame Connect Students to Inspire STEM Careers

High school students in Indiana are contributing to NASA’s groundbreaking research to develop quieter, more fuel-efficient aircraft engines. Their learning experience is a collaboration between aircraft noise researchers from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and educators from the University of Notre Dame’s Turbomachinery Laboratory.

Posted December 20, 2024

Aeronautics

Center Innovation Fund

Atmospheric Probe Takes Flight

On Oct. 22, 2024, the latest iteration of an atmospheric probe developed by researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, successfully completed a test flight.

Posted December 13, 2024

Aeronautics

Center Innovation Fund

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Atmospheric Probe Shows Promise in Test Flight

The most effective way to prove a new idea is to start small, test, learn, and test again. A team of researchers developing an atmospheric probe at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, are taking that approach. The concept could offer future scientists a potentially better and more economical way to collect data […]

Posted December 11, 2024

Advanced Air Transport Technology

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Aeronautics

Green Aviation Tech

Sustainable Aviation

NASA Flips Efficient Wing Concept for Testing

Upside down can be right side up. That’s what NASA researchers determined for tests of an efficient wing concept that could be part of the agency’s answer to making future aircraft sustainable.

Posted December 5, 2024

Aeronautics

Airspace Operations and Safety Program

Ames Research Center

Diversity at NASA

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For Kids and Students

Life at NASA

Modeling

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Project Management & Systems Engineering

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Women's History Month

Math, Mentorship, Motherhood: Behind the Scenes with NASA Engineers

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 22, 2024. Engineering is a huge field with endless applications. From aerospace to ergonomics, engineers play an important role in designing, building, and testing technologies all around us.

Posted November 8, 2024

Aeronautics

Sustainable Flight National Partnership

NASA Furthers Aeronautical Innovation Using Model-Based Systems

As NASA continues cutting-edge aeronautics research, the agency also is taking steps to make sure the benefits from these diverse technologies are greater than the sum of their parts. To tackle that challenge, NASA is using Model-Based Systems Analysis and Engineering (MBSAE).

Posted August 5, 2024

Aeronautics

Green Aviation Tech

NASA Aircraft

Sustainable Flight Demonstrator

Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator

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

Advanced Air Mobility

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Aeronautics

Ames Research Center

Drones & You

Glenn Research Center

Langley Research Center

Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology

NASA Prepares for Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Studies

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

Aeronautics