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…
Guy Kemmerly prepares an early Boeing High Speed Civil Transport model for low-speed testing in the NASA Langley 14-by 22-Foot…
Aerodynamicist Richard Whitcomb helped paved the way for supersonic flight by narrowing the fuselage in what’s known as the area…
This week in 1964, SA-5, the fifth Saturn I launch vehicle launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
This false color view of Jupiter’s polar haze was created by citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt using data from the JunoCam…
This mosaic of Caloris basin is an enhanced-color composite overlain on a monochrome mosaic featured in a previous post.
The volcanic vent northeast of Rachmaninoff basin is framed perfectly in this image.
Since its first observation in 2009, the volcanic vent complex to the northeast of Rachmaninoff basin has rewarded us with…
