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SpaceX Crew Dragon Performs Successful Launch Abort Test

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX achieved a huge milestone in safely launching astronauts from America’s Space Coast this spring as they performed an uncrewed launch abort test of their spacecraft…

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NASA’s Quieter Supersonic X-59 Approved for Final Assembly

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An experimental NASA aircraft designed to perform supersonic commercial travel while reducing the sound generated by sonic booms was approved for final assembly on Thursday. The X-59, also…

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NASA X-57 ‘Maxwell’ to Usher in Electric Propulsion Aircraft

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is engineering an all-electric aircraft capable of flying people and cargo great distances as a futuristic, clean-energy concept becomes a reality during the coming decade. NASA’s first…

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Flying Cars to be Debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019

Flying Cars to be Debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019 “Mark my words: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come,” Henry Ford…

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The Future Is Here: JetPack Racing Can’t Be Far Away

Jetpacks were once thought to be science fiction. How could a man fly without a vehicle? Then the 1984 Olympics came along. Rafer Johnson flew into the Los Angeles Coliseum…

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Blue Origin Shares Video Of Latest Flight Test Of New Capsule Featuring Enormous Windows

Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos and his Kent, Wash.-based aerospace company Blue Origin conducted a successful flight test of a new ‘2.0’ version of their New Shepard crew capsule on Tuesday,…

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SpaceX to Launch Tesla Roadster to Mars Playing ‘Space Oddity’ for First Falcon Heavy Launch

“Ground Control to Major Tom” may soon be playing in orbit around Mars for the next billion years if Elon Musk has anything to say about it. The owner of…

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F-18s Help Develop Flight Control System for New Deep Space Rocket

For the last several years work has been underway to develop NASA’s replacement launch vehicle for the agency’s retired space shuttle fleet, the Space Launch System (SLS for short). The…

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This Is How You Film The Fastest P-51 On The Planet

As some of you AvGeeks may recall, air racing champion Steven Hinton recently set a new World Speed Record over Labor Day weekend of 531.272 MPH in his highly modified P-51…

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That Time an F-15 Pilot Shot Down a Satellite

On Sept. 13, 1985, F-15 test pilot Maj. Wilbert D. “Doug” Pearson (now retired Maj. Gen.) took off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on a mission which would see him become history’s…

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NASA X-Plane Will Make Supersonic Passenger Travel Over Land a Reality

America’s brightest aviation minds once designed, built and flew all kinds of experimental aircraft. Short wings, long wing, delta-shaped and forward swept, big tails and no tails, high speed and low…

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Army Apache Nails Target with Laser Weapon in Groundbreaking Test

Defense contractor Raytheon has announced the successful completion of a groundbreaking test recently at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, where an Army Apache AH-64 attack helicopter conducted the first…