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NASA Grants
to Engage Students in Quiet Supersonic Community Overflight Feb. 26, 2024 RELEASE: 24-032
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is dramatically lit for a “glamour shot,” captured before its Jan. 12,
2024, rollout at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale where the airplane was constructed. Credit: Lockheed Martin / Michael Jackson
NASA has issued new grants to five universities to help develop education plans for the community overflight phase of the agency’s Quesst mission, which aims to demonstrate the possibility
of supersonic flight without the typical loud sonic booms.
The new grants, from NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement, will provide each university team with $40,000 to develop science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) engagement
strategic implementation plans for those Quesst community overflights. The awards will focus on plans for engaging with students and educators in the communities that NASA will eventually select for overflights. This will help ensure communities are accurately
informed about this phase of Quesst and what involvement in the mission will look like for their community.
“The Quesst mission is unique at NASA, with community input playing a major part in its success,” said Eric Miller, deputy mission integration manager for Quesst. “These new awards
will allow NASA to learn from other STEM professionals, informing us as we develop a framework to effectively engage with students and educators.”
The selected institutions and their projects, are:
The deliverables from the awards will help inform a student engagement approach that can be implemented in any community, state, and region that may be selected. NASA has yet to select
communities for the overflights.
Through Quesst, NASA is developing its X-59 experimental aircraft, which will fly faster than the
speed of sound while producing only a quiet sonic “thump.” After the X-59 completes a series of flight tests, NASA will fly it over a number of communities across the country, gathering data about what people below hear.
For more information about Quesst, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/quesst/
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