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✨ What sparked your love of flight? ✨
Celebrate National Aviation Day on Aug. 19 by sharing your aviation story! ✈️❤️
Share:
📸 The Spark – The photo that inspired your love of aviation.
📸 The Journey – A recent photo showing where that spark has taken you.
✍️ Add a short story or quote, then share your story between now and Aug. 19 using #FlightSpark# and #NationalAviationDay#.
🌟 Selected stories may be featured on NASA Aeronautics' X and Facebook accounts on Aug. 19.
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NASA’s air resources are on display at EAA AirVenture #OSH26# ✈️
NASA’s F-15 and F/A-18 are research vehicles based at @NASAArmstrong showing off their new Freedom 250 livery. And we have the @NASAJohnson workhorse T-38 that’s trained our astronauts for decades.
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🚀 When people think of NASA careers, they often picture astronauts and engineers.
But it also takes...
📸 Photographers to capture history.
🎨 Designers to visualize complex ideas.
✍️ Writers to explain groundbreaking discoveries.
🎥 Videographers to document missions.
📱 Communications professionals to connect NASA with millions around the world.
NASA photographer Jim Ross captured this remarkable perspective while flying aboard one of the agency's F-18 aircraft during the America 250 flyover over Washington, D.C. ✈️
Because exploration isn't just about making history—it's about sharing it.
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✈️ ANOTHER MILESTONE UNLOCKED: NASA’s X-59 reaches speed, altitude for future quiet supersonic flight testing!
NASA's X-59 experimental aircraft achieved a major milestone June 12, reaching Mach 1.4 (about 924 mph) and an altitude of 55,000 feet – its fastest and highest flight so far, and the conditions required for future mission-critical tests.
These flights are focused on performance, the quiet flights are coming soon. After acoustic validation, NASA’s Quesst mission will fly the aircraft over several U.S. communities 🏘️ to collect data on public perception of the quieter sonic thump the aircraft will make at supersonic speeds. 🔊 ✈️
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✈️ JUST IN: The X-59 has gone supersonic!
The X-59 achieved supersonic speeds for the first time ever today — a major milestone for NASA’s Quesst mission and an important step toward upcoming flights that will demonstrate its quiet supersonic technology ahead of future community overflights.
Fast now. Quiet soon. 🔊➡️🤫
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