A Nasa WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft successfully returned to Earth after experiencing a landing gear malfunction in Houston. The crew safely touched down at Ellington Airport following a tense situation that showcased exceptional piloting skills.

NASA pilot David “Nils” Larson outlines X-59 early flight tests, design features, risk management, and planned research phases based on NASA’s Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast.

In late August 2025, at Edwards Air Force Base in California, pilot Kirt Stallings sat suited up and ready to go inside a transport vehicle, mere moments from boarding NASA's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft. Through the window, ground crews readied the long ...

NASA wants to make supersonic flight quieter and engineers in Cleveland are helping to make that happen. The X-59 plane took its first flight in October.

Former Navy helicopter pilot Suni Williams made headlines when she and a colleague on the Starliner mission spent several months longer than planned at the International Space Station.

Artemis II, the next mission in NASA’s Artemis program to explore the Moon, is scheduled to launch from Florida within the coming weeks. The mission will be the first crewed mission to the vicinity of the Moon since 1972, with the four-person crew expected to travel farther than any other human mission in spaceflight history.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX's brand new rocketship and return human orbital launches to the U.S. are classmates and friends. They're also veteran spacefliers married to veteran spacefliers, and fathers of ...