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NASA Boeing X-66A Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Transonic Truss-Braced Wing
Originally known as the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Project, this transonic truss-braced wing design aircraft is now known as the NASA x Boeing X-66A. This experimental aircraft aims to create a more sustainable single-aisle aircraft and to achieve this, the two agencies will build, test, as well as fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft with extra-long, thin wings stabilized by diagonal struts,

Boeing Engineers Paper Airplane Record
No, an electromagnetic rail launcher was not used to set this new Guinness World Record, just a small hand-folded paper airplane by Boeing engineers Dillon Ruble and Garrett Jensen. The two have always been fascinated by paper airplanes, so what better record to break than farther flight by paper aircraft? They did just that on December 2, 2022 in Crown Point, Indiana.

Boeing Starliner Undock International Space Station Return Earth
The NASA x Boeing Starliner CST-100 undocked from the International Space Station and landed safely Wednesday in the desert of the western United States. This marks the completion of the uncrewed six day Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the ISS to help prove the system is ready to fly human astronauts. Approximately 4-hours after departing the ISS, Starliner touched down onto its airbags at 4:49 p.m. MDT.

Boeing Starliner Dock International Space Station
The Boeing Starliner CST-100 spacecraft has successfully docked with the International Space Station as of 7:28pm Central Time (0028 UTC). This marks the completion of Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2)’s primary goal with no astronauts on board, thanks to the autonomous systems and ground controllers in Houston who guided the vehicle through a carefully choreographed series of maneuvers. It then recharged its batteries using solar arrays installed on the service module.