NASA’s X-59 Takes Historic First Flight
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft’s first flight marks the start of flight testing for NASA’s Quesst mission, the result of years of design, integration, and ground testing and begins a new chapter in NASA’s aeronautics research legacy.
- Date
- 2025-10-28
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Carla Thomas
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- AFRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
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- photograph
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