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Space Shuttle Carrying 747 Was Secretly Modified To Defend Itself From...
In May 1983, what was then NASA’s only Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a highly-modified Boeing 747 airliner capable of carrying a Space Shuttle on the top of its fuselage, arrived at the Paris Air Show...
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SEAL-Doctor-Astronaut Jonny Kim Is Adding Pilot To His Crazy Resume
Is there anything Jonny Kim can’t do? Scratch piloting an airplane from the list of things the Navy SEAL-turned Harvard-trained medical doctor-turned NASA-astronaut hasn’t yet accomplished. On June 6,...
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This Is Why A NASA WB-57F Canberra Jet Is In South Korea
One of NASA’s high-flying WB-57Fs, which can be configured to carry all number of sensors and other systems in various payload bays, nose extensions, and underwing pods, and is often used to support...
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NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Test Jet Now Has Its Engine
NASA’s X-59A Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, or QueSST, now has its F414-GE-100 turbofan engine, another important step toward its first flight, which is currently scheduled to take place next...
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Check Out These Images Of A Satellite In Orbit Taken By Another Satellite
It’s fair to say that artists’ renderings of satellite systems in orbit are pretty common. Yet images of satellites in orbit taken by other satellites in orbit are a whole different ballgame. This is...
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X-59 Supersonic Test Jet Looks Positively Sci-Fi Head-On
Lockheed Martin’s latest photos of the experimental X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, or QueSST, built by the company Skunk Works for NASA, provide perhaps the best view so far of its radical...
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NASA’s Quiet Short Takeoff And Landing Test Jet Is Up For Sale
It’s not every day that a unique piece of aerospace test history comes up for sale, but members of the public now have the chance to bid for just such an item: the one-off de Havilland Canada Buffalo...
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Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB For Weeks
Langley Air Force Base, located in one of the most strategic areas of the country, across the Chesapeake Bay from the sprawling Naval Station Norfolk and the open Atlantic, was at the epicenter of...
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NASA’s DC-8 Flying Lab Flies Into Retirement, Making The Type Nearly Extinct
NASA’s Douglas DC-8 flying laboratory, one of only two examples of the airliner understood to still be flying in the United States, has ended its career. DC-8-72 N817NA, known to NASA as the Airborne...
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