NASA gives Boeing $2.6 million contract to develop new plane
One of the metro’s largest employers is helping bring airplanes into the future.
Published: May. 22, 2023 at 5:31 PM CDT
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - One of the metro’s largest employers is helping bring airplanes into the future.
NASA is awarding Boeing $2.6 million to develop a fast commercial passenger plane.
NASA wants to build an aircraft that could reach up to 15 hundred miles per hour.
The near-hyper-sonic plane could be ready to fly as early as 2030.
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