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.

The Space Age lost two of its most recognizable landmarks when NASA brought down towering test structures at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The controlled implosion erased hardware that helped push rockets to the Moon and into low Earth orbit,

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.

NASA has announced the demolition of several historic testing and simulation facilities at Marshall Space Flight Center.

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

NASA and Boeing suffered a few significant setbacks during the last Starliner test flight. The results of that mission remain a big problem for both parties.

Space agency doubles the jet fighter research fleet for its X-59 quiet supersonic flight program.

NASA has demolished the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility and Dynamic Test Stand in Huntsville to modernize the Marshall Space Flight Center and preserve their history digitally.

The upcoming test campaign at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is the culmination of the program that included preparatory flight tests of an improved laminar flow detection system in 2019, and flow environment experiments beneath a NASA F-15B research aircraft in 2023.