2025 was a big year for the Quesst mission! After years of design, development, and testing, NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took to the skies for the first time October 28, marking a historic moment for the field of aeronautics research and the agency’s Quesst mission. Watch these highlights from our series, 59 seconds on the X-59, and see NASA test pilot Nils Larson give a behind the scenes look at what it took to fly the one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft for the first time!

@NASAaero LFG! X-59 crushed it. I am furious Ottawa keeps cutting aerospace funding instead of backing ambitious research like this.

@NASAaero @NASAArmstrong Can't wait to hear what you have learned from the flight.

@NASAaero So uh… Boom aerospace managed to actually achieve low/no boom commercial super sonic flight on 1/28/25, and is now actively lobbying congress to pass legislation. What value does this program serve? Seems ya got lapped… @NASAAdmin

@NASAaero Engine sound 🤤

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