Another unconventional aspect of the X-59: its cockpit does not have a front-facing windscreen, or windshield. Instead, the pilot has a set of screens to show what lies before the aircraft.
If every step taken, hour slept, and heartbeat can be measured, recorded, and analyzed, are we taking control of our health or losing the plot entirely?
The Pentagon says F-35s received no new combat upgrades last year, and that attempts to replace old software have stalled.
The guardrails are completely gone.
The potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way for an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in 2029.
It was a wild year for NASA, and the space agency has the pictures to prove it.
Batteries falling from space, an eclipse photobombed by comets, a newborn star, and more, mark another exhilarating week in space.