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#congratulations #FromKargilToCosmos: This hashtag celebrates Shukla's journey from being inspired by the Kargil War heroes to becoming an astronaut, highlighting the power of dreams and perseverance. #IndianAstronautPride: This hashtag expresses national pride for India's first astronaut selected for a space mission, marking a significant milestone in the country's space exploration journey. #FlyHighWithShubhanshu: This hashtag captures the spirit of soaring high and reaching for the stars, just like Shukla's journey from a young boy with a dream to a space-bound astronaut. #GaganyaanInspiration: This hashtag connects Shukla's mission with India's ambitious Gaganyaan human spaceflight program, inspiring future generations to pursue careers in science and space exploration. #SpaceDreamsMadeReal: This hashtag encapsulates the realization of childhood dreams and the extraordinary possibilities that arise when passion and hard work converge.

In 2003, the first and last supersonic passenger-carrying commercial plane, the Concorde, had its last scheduled commercial flight. Decades later, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Lockheed Martin are working together to turnaround the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s ban on supersonic flights over the U.S. by civilian aircraft. In 2024, the key piece of the puzzle was revealed to the public: the experimental X-59 jet. Here’s a short history of how the X-59 came to be and how it plays a crucial role to the return of faster-than-sound air travel.

GAO REPORT: THE GAP! It is time to accept the reality that the curse of aerospace regulators is the ever-growing quantitative and qualitative gap between required and available human resources. A widening gap that the continuous technological progress makes impossible to fill with current organizational schemes, including self-certification. It is time to consider alternate models such as the private certification services used since centuries in shipbuilding. Another possibility is to outsource such services to NASA. (let's not forget that the current commercial crew vehicles from SpaceX and Boeing, as well as the future commercial space stations, are all NASA certified). Currently, there is no offer of such services? Well, it is necessary to create the conditions for them to exist.

In 2020, India selected and has been training 4 astronauts for its first human spaceflight program but has kept the names and the faces a secret, until now. The four candidates were presented to the public today during a formal ceremony in Kerala. All 4 worked as fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force but since 2020 have been employees of ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization. Two are from northern India and two from the south. Group Captain Prashanth BalaKrishnan Nair, at 47 is the oldest. With more than two decades of experience in the air force, I suspect he will be the mission commander. Group Captain Ajit Krishnan and Group Captain Angad Prathap are both 41. The youngest at 38 is Wing Commander Shubhansku Shukla. To date only the USA, Russia and China have the capability for human spaceflight. India's first crewed mission is to carry a crew of two for a three-day mission to an altitude of 300km. It will launch from Sriharikota and splashdown in the Arabian sea, off the coast of Gujarat. That is likely by end of 2025. But the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration / ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization announcement in the summer of 2023 may mean that the next Indian astronaut may go to the ISS this year. If that happens it will be one of these four. https://lnkd.in/ej24YHS6

SAVE the DATE for the inaugural Coastal Mobility Symposium on June 13-14 at Elizabeth City State University The symposium will bring together innovators, technologies, researchers and policy makers to shape the future of coastal transportation planning. Stay tuned for more details on registration and exhibitor opportunities. #coastalinnovation #advancedairmobility #eastcoast #coastal #mobility #faanews #auvsi #auvsinc #innovation #technology #publicsafety #ncdot #coastalmobility #emergencyresponse AUVSI — Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International NCDOT NCDOT Division of Aviation RTI International RTI Innovation Advisors Federal Aviation Administration NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration U.S. Department of Transportation U.S. Coast Guard AFWERX FEMA

An exciting announcement, an Archer & NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration collaboration 🤝 "Archer believes that while the supply chain for electric vehicles in the U.S. is maturing, the supply chain for electric aircraft remains nascent not just here in the U.S., but globally, so this testing will help push progress forward. NASA’s goal is to test Archer’s battery cell and system design and share the results to push the entire AAM industry forward. Maturing battery technology is anticipated to be a key enabling factor for the mass production and adoption of electric aviation. Archer plans to deliver a high-performing battery pack with leading levels of safety to its Midnight electric air taxi, validating that these cells are tailor-made for aerospace applications, including electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL), electric conventional take-off and landing (eCTOL) aircraft and potential usage in space." Full credit & details: 👇👇 #ArcherAviation #NASA #AAM #eVTOL #FutureMobility

5 things you can learn from the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration #Voyager Program: 1. A program, is a plan, is dates and times, is tasks that you cannot redo. 2. Being organized is essential, dedication to process required. 3. Knowing is the only option, confidence does not count. 4. Be patient with others that do not share your mission. 5. Asking “How can we” is also a form of exploration.

I hope that the X-59's 65 to 75 dB sound level (depending on altitude) can be approved so that supersonic airliners using the X-59's shockwave management technologies can fly not only over land, but over populated area's since there is no Concorde equivalent 103 dB BOOM with no window rattling results. (Should only take FFA five years to get that approved) Ha ! Of course the build cost, and especially the operating cost, (maintenance, higher paid flight crews/pilots/maintainers and fuel cost which is well above subsonic travel (especially on a passenger per fuel use basis) are economic issues that STILL remains. Then again, Lamborghini and 'Ferrari have their customer base, but perhaps bigger airlines where subsonic heavy airliners are their "bread and butter" could work in a limited number of supersonic airliners on business routes where time is a factor and charge only two or three times a "subsonic" first class ticket, and still come out even.

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration #innovation #innovatie #solution #safety #creativity #idea #ideas #research #aviation #aircraft #aviationsafety #aerospace Respected if for small aircraft, plane ,glider plane falls in Rivers, Oceans on water bodies This Air tube facility will Helps in Reducing drowning, Helps to Float for some time and helps to persons to come out faster outside .This is my innovative idea Helps to float for some long time and provides better facility and safety and helps to save .

Congratulations to Boeing, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and all of the industry partners on their incredible success in launching and docking with the ISS. I take pride in knowing that we have built so many complex system that play an important role in the process. This is a reminder of the limitless possibilities that lie ahead. #SpaceExploration #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork"