
If you threw a football at 60 mph, the average speed of an NFL pass, it would take 3,982 hours,…

The lunar football!

Yamzho Yumco (Sacred Swan) Lake in Tibet is surrounded by snow-capped mountains and is one of the three largest sacred…

This enhanced-color image shows a small portion of a dark crater floor in the Tyrrhena Terra region of Mars.

Impact ejecta is material that is thrown up and out of the surface of a planet as a result of…

NASA Langley Research Center centennial emblem

Breaking the Sound Barrier, part of the NACA/NASA Langley Research Center centennial celebration — A Storied Legacy, A Soaring Future.…

NASA Langley tested versions of the X-43 engine before it established the Guinness World record for fastest air breathing hypersonic…

One of the first breakthroughs that allowed supersonic flight was in wind tunnel design. Langley researchers added slots (right) to…

Before Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 in 1947 models were tested in…