List of NASA aircraft - Wikipedia
This is a list of NASA aircraft. Throughout its history NASA has used several different types of aircraft on a permanent, semi-permanent, or short-term basis. These aircraft are usually surplus, but in a few cases are newly built, military aircraft.
NASA Aircraft
Dec 12, 2024 · This NASA Aircraft page will showcase NASA’s aircraft operations that enable the Agency’s myriad missions, from preparing astronauts to go to space, to studying Earth from the air, to developing leading-edge aeronautic technologies.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Robotic Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2024 · Space mission and science news, images and videos from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.
Aircraft Operations - NASA
Jun 12, 2024 · NASA JSC’s services in Aircraft Operations include various aircraft for a variety of purposes. From launch and landing imagery of space vehicles, providing critical in-flight component performance verification, to transporting large cargo, these specialized aircraft enable human spaceflight.
WB-57 - JSC | NASA Airborne Science Program
Dec 14, 2024 · The WB-57 is a mid-wing, long-range aircraft capable of operation for extended periods of time from sea level to altitudes in excess of 60,000 feet. Two crew members are positioned at separate tandem stations in the forward section of the fuselage.
Aeronautics - NASA
Dec 12, 2024 · Quesst is the name of NASA Aeronautics' mission to help take the first step toward enabling commercial, faster-than-sound air travel over land. The centerpiece of the mission is NASA's X-59 research aircraft. The experimental supersonic jet is designed with technology that reduces the loudness of a sonic boom to a gentle thump.
NASA Aircraft Gallery - NASA
Jan 18, 2024 · NASA's historic B-52 mother ship carried the X-43A and its Pegasus booster rocket on a captive carry flight from Edwards... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F-18 jet fighter, during a research flight....
Gulfstream C-20A (GIII) - AFRC | NASA Airborne Science Program
Sep 29, 2024 · The NASA C-20A (Gulfstream III) is a business jet that has been structurally modified and instrumented by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center to serve as a multi-role cooperative research platform for the earth science community and a …
NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft
Nov 12, 2024 · NASA is working to answer those questions by commissioning five new design studies looking to push the boundaries of possibility for sustainable aircraft. Through NASA’s Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental Sustainability (AACES) 2050 initiative, the agency asked industry and academia to come up with studies looking at aircraft ...
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reaches Top of Jezero Crater Rim
Dec 12, 2024 · The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for the agency by Caltech, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.