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The Dream Chaser spacecraft glides to a landing at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California, following a successful free flight demonstration in 2017. Photo Credit: NASA
Work Continues at KSC on New Spaceplane
August 29, 2024 // by

Dream Chaser, with roots in a NASA project from the 1990s, will take lifting body design to new heights.

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NASA recently retired its DC-8 Airborne Science platform after more than three decades of research. The aircraft is shown here against the background of a dark blue sky on February 20, 1998. Photo Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas
NASA’s DC-8 Laboratory Flies into the Sunset
May 30, 2024 // by

After more than three decades of amazing contributions to science, storied aircraft heads to Idaho for a new chapter.  

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In this photo from 2013, a welder at NASA’s Stennis Space Center works on a portion of piping to be installed on the A-1 Test Stand for RS-25 rocket engine testing. Photo Credit: NASA/MSFC
Podcast Series Focuses on Trade, Technical Workforce
October 20, 2023 // by

Small Steps, Giant Leaps highlights crucial role in NASA missions.

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Screenshot of CJ Bixby during her interview. Credit: NASA
Critical Knowledge inSight: Communication Skills for Engineers
September 25, 2023 // by

Good communication is a crucial skill for a systems engineer leading a project team.

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A worker at the sheet metal shop. Photo Credit: NASA/Tom Tschida
Podcast Episode 115: NASA Trade and Technical Professionals, Part 1
August 23, 2023 // by

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Engineering Technicians Jason Nelson, Kyle Whitfield, and Alex Zamora discuss their essential contributions to NASA missions.

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NASA’s X-59 QueSST, shown here in an artist’s illustration, has a unique design to minimize the sonic booms of supersonic flight to soft thumps. In November 2022, a GE Aviation F414-GE-100 engine was installed in the X-59 at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, marking a major milestone as assembly of the X-59 nears completion. Credit: Lockheed Martin
Working Toward a Quieter Supersonic Flight
March 21, 2023 // by

ImaginAviation session highlights promise of NASA’s X-59.

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NASA’s X-57 ‘Maxwell’ is the agency’s first all-electric experimental aircraft, or X-plane, and is NASA’s first crewed X-plane in two decades. This is an illustration of this plane flying above a city. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 96: Airworthiness
November 2, 2022 // by

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Chief Engineer CJ Bixby discusses what it takes to achieve airworthiness.

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Leadership includes beginning with an organization’s origin story—its “why”—then connecting that “why” with the individual “why” of each of your team members. Here, President John F. Kennedy sets part of NASA’s origin story on September 12, 1962, saying, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…” Credit: NASA
The Why of Leadership
March 28, 2022 // by

How leaders can foster cognitive diversity and align personal and organizational goals.

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Podcast Episode 67: Quiet Supersonic Mission
Podcast Episode 67: Quiet Supersonic Mission
August 25, 2021 // by

NASA Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Deputy Project Manager Cathy Bahm discusses the X-59 quiet supersonic research mission.

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