On April 10, 1959, the Northrop T-38 Talon took to the skies for the first time, ushering in a new era of supersonic jet training. Developed to replace the aging T-33, the T-38 became the world's ...

NASA says it decided against having the first test flight of the X-59 QueSST supersonica demonstrator this year, ... is the same one you'll find on the T-38 Talon trainer aircraft.

The first 'A' in NASA's acronym name — Aeronautics — will play a leading role in the final flights of its recently retired shuttle program. Space agency jet aircraft will take to the air ...

This innovative design wraps an interior that holds both new and old parts. To make the X-59, Lockheed Martin used, for instance, the cockpit of a T-38 Talon trainer aircraft, the control stick ...

More shockwave visualizations from NASA involving two T-38 aircraft in a composite image. JT Heineck / NASA Ripples in the water, shockwaves in the air .

we wouldn’t be here if we weren’t ready. we are ready. the spacecraft is ready and the teams are ready. earlier thursday, commander butch wilmore and pilot suni williams arriving in t-38 aircraft.

The Air Force — along with the Navy and NASA — uses the T-38 to train pilots across the country but has planned to phase it out for a new Boeing-made aircraft known as the T-7A Red Hawk. The ...

The aircraft’s most noticeable feature is a nose that measures 38 feet long, which represents more than one-third of its total length of 99 feet and 7 inches. Tucked into a compartment behind ...