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This is a list of NASA aircraft. Throughout its history NASA has used several different types of aircraft on a permanent, semi-permanent, or short-term basis. These aircraft are usually surplus, but in a few cases are newly built, military aircraft.
This category collects aircraft and aerospacecraft operated by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and its successor, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Pages in category "NASA aircraft"
Twelve pilots flew the X-15 over the course of its career. Scott Crossfield and William Dana flew the X-15 on its first and last free flights, respectively. Joseph Walker set the program's top two altitude records on its 90th and 91st free flights (347,800 and 354,200 feet, respectively), becoming the only pilot to fly past the Kármán line, the 100 kilometer, FAI-recognized boundary of outer ...
high-performance research aircraft. High-performance fighter [40] Proposed development of Lockheed CL-1200 Lancer. Canceled and never flew. X-28 Sea Skimmer: Osprey: USN 1970 Low-cost aerial policing seaplane [41] X-29: Grumman: DARPA, USAF, NASA 1984 Forward-swept wing [42] X-30 NASP: Rockwell: NASA, DARPA, USAF 1993 Single-stage-to-orbit ...
This list is incomplete; ... Launched from the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the Buran air lift carrier aircraft. Martin X-23 PRIME: USA: Rocket launch: Experimental: 1966:
Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
An aircraft may have had civil use following its retirement from the military; furthermore an aircraft may not be displayed with the same identification as is listed here. Aircraft formerly operated by the United States civilian agency NASA , while civil registered, are identified separately to the other former civil-registered aircraft in the ...
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) are two extensively modified Boeing 747 airliners that NASA used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters.One (N905NA) is a 747-100 model, while the other (N911NA) is a short-range 747-100SR.