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NASA Moves Drone Package Delivery Industry Closer to Reality

December 10, 2024

Lillian Gipson

Package delivery drones are coming to our doorsteps in the future, and NASA wants to make sure that when medication or pizza deliveries take to the skies, they will be safe. In July, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the first time authorized multiple U.S. companies to fly commercial drones in the same airspace without…
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NASA Langley Employees Earn Silver Snoopy Awards

November 21, 2024

Angelique Herring

Two employees from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently earned the prestigious Silver Snoopy award, an honor given to NASA employees and contractors across the agency for outstanding achievements related to astronaut safety or mission success. Dr. Shih-Yung Lin and Dr. Peter Parker received the awards during a Space Flight Awareness (SFA) award…
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Media Invited to Learn About NASA, GE Aerospace Contrails Flight Tests

November 20, 2024

Angelique Herring

Media are invited to learn about a unique series of flight tests happening in Virginia in partnership between NASA and GE Aerospace that aim to help the aviation industry better understand contrails and their impact on the Earth’s climate. Contrails are the lines of clouds that can be created by high-flying aircraft, but they may…
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From Houston to the Moon: Johnson’s Thermal Vacuum Chamber Tests Lunar Solar Technology

November 19, 2024

Sumer Loggins

Imagine designing technology that can survive on the Moon for up to a decade, providing a continuous energy supply. NASA selected three companies to develop such systems, aimed at providing a power source at the Moon’s South Pole for Artemis missions. Three companies were awarded contracts in 2022 with plans to test their self-sustaining solar…
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NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft

November 12, 2024

Lillian Gipson

Picture yourself at an airport a few decades from now. What does your airliner look like? It’s more efficient, with lower emissions than today’s aircraft – what kinds of designs or technology make that possible? NASA is working to answer those questions by commissioning five new design studies looking to push the boundaries of possibility…
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NASA Armstrong Builds Sensor Pod for Autonomous Flight

November 12, 2024

Dede Dinius

The design and build of a unique NASA pod, produced to advance computer vision for autonomous aviation, was recently completed in-house at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, by using the center’s unique fabrication capabilities. The pod is called the NASA Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE). NASA Armstrong can…
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The Cast and Crew of “Ain’t Too Proud” Visit NASA Langley

November 7, 2024

Angelique Herring

Get Ready! Members of the cast and crew of the Broadway national touring production of “Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations,” visited NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia on Nov. 6, where they learned more about the center’s work in air, space, and science. The show was in the…
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X-59 Fires Up its Engine for First Time on Its Way to Takeoff

November 6, 2024

Lillian Gipson

Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s Quesst mission marked a major milestone with the start of tests on the engine that will power the quiet supersonic X-59 experimental aircraft. These engine-run tests, which began Oct. 30, allow the X-59 team to verify the aircraft’s systems are working together while powered by its own engine.…
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NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024

October 30, 2024

Tiernan P. Doyle

As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for space travel, enable communications with spacecraft at record-breaking distances, and determine the habitability of a moon of Jupiter, were named Wednesday among TIME’s Inventions of 2024. “The NASA workforce — wizards, as I call them…
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A Serendipitous NASA Family Reunion

October 13, 2024

Jim Banke

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn’t imagine that one day she would work at NASA. Today, she serves as technical project coordinator at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, supporting its Aeronautics Research Directorate. Cruz-Diaz’s position requires her to travel in support of public engagement events and recently she supported NASA’s presence at…
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Category: Langley Research Center

NASA Moves Drone Package Delivery Industry Closer to Reality

NASA Langley Employees Earn Silver Snoopy Awards

Media Invited to Learn About NASA, GE Aerospace Contrails Flight Tests

From Houston to the Moon: Johnson’s Thermal Vacuum Chamber Tests Lunar Solar Technology

NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft

NASA Armstrong Builds Sensor Pod for Autonomous Flight

The Cast and Crew of “Ain’t Too Proud” Visit NASA Langley

X-59 Fires Up its Engine for First Time on Its Way to Takeoff

NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024

A Serendipitous NASA Family Reunion

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