NASA Starts Walking the Long Paper Path That'll Put Its X-59 Supersonic Plane in the Air

Before proving that commercial supersonic flight over land is possible without breaking the law, NASA's experimental supersonic aircraft, the X-59, has to travel the long path of bureaucracy. But unlike the sometimes useless bureaucracy we're faced with almost every day, this one has a clear purpose in mind: ensuring that the upcoming test flights are safe. For almost a decade now the American space agency has been working on so... (continue reading...)