NASA researchers successfully completed a high-speed taxi test of a scale model of a design that could make future aircraft more efficient by improving how air flows across a wing's surface, saving fuel and money.

NASA’s X-59 test flights rely on chase aircraft to monitor safety, communications, data collection, and instrumentation as flight testing progresses over California in 2026.

No one in NASA’s Artemis II crew had been born when astronauts last ventured into deep space for the final Apollo program Moon landing in 1972. For the last half-century, human space efforts have focused on science research and technology initiatives aboard low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, culminating with the Inter-national Space Station.

NASA is moving forward with plans to demolish three iconic structures at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.