Un bel video delle fasi finali del volo di Orion riprese dalla telecamera montata sul muso del WB-57 (aereo da ricognizione in alta quota) di NASA. #Artemis1 | AstronautiCAST

The NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas is the home of the NASA WB-57 High Altitude Research Program. Three fully operational WB-57 aircraft are based near JSC at Ellington Field. The aircraft have been flying research missions since the early 1970's, and continue to be an asset to the scientific community with professional, reliable, customer-oriented service designed to meet all scientific objectives. | Vintage Aviation News

Brb. Going to catch the solar eclipse! ✈️ Two WB-57 jets are flying scientific instruments for research teams during the April 8 total solar #eclipse. From 50,000 feet above, two research teams will image the Sun’s corona, the outer layer of the Sun, and a third will measure the ionosphere, the upper electrically charged layer of Earth’s atmosphere. The aircraft will both take off from El Paso, Texas, and fly to the coast of Mexico picking up the path of totality through south Texas. Both aircra