NASA pilot David “Nils” Larson outlines X-59 early flight tests, design features, risk management, and planned research phases based on NASA’s Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast.

In late August 2025, at Edwards Air Force Base in California, pilot Kirt Stallings sat suited up and ready to go inside a transport vehicle, mere moments from boarding NASA's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft. Through the window, ground crews readied the long ...

Former Navy helicopter pilot Suni Williams made headlines when she and a colleague on the Starliner mission spent several months longer than planned at the International Space Station.

Space agency doubles the jet fighter research fleet for its X-59 quiet supersonic flight program.

A small fleet of modified Eagles continues to provide valuable service to NASA even as the Air Force counts down to fully divesting the jets.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX's brand new rocketship and return human orbital launches to the U.S. are classmates and friends. They're also veteran spacefliers married to veteran spacefliers, and fathers of ...