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NASA moves a step closer to supersonic passenger flights (www.cnn.com)
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In July, Lockheed Martin completed the build of NASA’s X-59 test aircraft, which is designed to turn sonic booms into mere thumps, in the hope of making overland supersonic flight a possibility. Ground tests and a first test flight are planned for later in the year. NASA aims to have enough data to hand over to US regulators in 2027.

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[-] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 26 points 1 year ago

How about bitch about the actual wasteful military spending instead of scientific research into physics and understanding the dynamics of sonic booms. Nasa has like .1% of the military budget ffs.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

US defense budget was 752.9B for 2022, whereas NASA's was 24.8B

So NASA's funding amounts to 3.29% of the Defense budget (about 1/30)

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2638711/the-department-of-defense-releases-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2022-defense-budg/

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/fy2022_budget_summary.pdf

I agree with you, but it's nice to nail down the numbers

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