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Aurora Flight Sciences, Manassas
America's Unmanned Future
The age of autonomous vehicles has arrived. Autonomous shuttles, cars, farm equipment, mining equipment and trucks, on-highway trucks, and construction equipment will be here soon or are already commercially available.
Wing debuted its U.S. drone delivery trials in Christiansburg in 2019.
A Welcoming Atmosphere
With Wing, Google Pioneers Drone Delivery in Virginia On a gravel lot just off of Welcome Street in Christiansburg in Montgomery County, an array of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) recharging pads is flanked by office trailers and shipping containers.
SpaceX Capsule Testing NASA Langley
Lowering the (Sonic) Boom at NASA's Langley Research Center
On a bright, early morning in the Mojave Desert in November 2021, test pilot Nils Larson will climb into a 97-foot-long airplane resembling something out of “Star Wars.” The nose, from tip to the single-seat cockpit, will be as long as the rest of the aircraft.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Accomack County
Opening the Final Frontier at the Wallops Flight Facility
On a chilly, cloud-streaked day in February, a 133-foot-tall rocket sat on a launchpad, venting steam from its liquid oxygen tanks. With the Atlantic Ocean tumbling against a beach just a stone's throw away, a flight director counted down to liftoff.
