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Cracking the code of hypersonic flight: A decade of experiments maps turbulent physics of ultra-fast travel

From the heartbreak of an early flight failure to a resounding triumph over the Norwegian Sea, the Boundary Layer Transition and Turbulence (BOLT) Program spent nearly a decade launching rockets into ...
Phys.org

Suborbital flight experiments test dust particle agglomerates to study planet formation

Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This so-called accretion is not yet fully understood. Astrophysicists at the ...
Flightglobal

GE Aerospace, NASA flight tests accelerate contrails science

GE Aerospace and NASA recently partnered on flight tests to help further the aviation industry’s understanding of contrails, using new test methods and technologies. Contrails are clouds made of ice ...
SpaceNews

New NASA Space Experiment Rack To Undergo Flight Tests

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A new space experiment rack under development by NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., and Space Florida will undergo initial tests this week. The rack will fly aboard NASA’s first ...
SpaceNews

NASA Rocket Carrying Student Experiments Launched From Wallops Flight Facility

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – A NASA rocket carrying seventeen educational experiments was successfully launched at 6:40 a.m. today from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The experiments built by ...
Mashable

These 'avatars' will fly around the moon with NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts

The AVATAR investigation on NASA's Artemis II will utilize organ chips to study how the astronauts' own cells respond to the hostile deep-space environment. Credit: Emulate When the Artemis II ...
Berkshire Eagle

Berkshire Communtiy College participating in space flight experiment

PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Community College has been selected by the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Mission 18 to participate in a microgravity research experiment headed to the International ...