{"id":401010,"date":"2026-04-28T04:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/401010\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:48:11","slug":"nasas-x-59-gets-freedom-250-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/401010\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s X-59 Gets Freedom 250 Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/quesst-the-aircraft\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/quesst-the-aircraft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s X-59<\/a> is helping the nation celebrate the 250th anniversary of its independence with an update to its livery \u2013 its official paint job and insignia.<\/p>\n<p>The one-of-a-kind research aircraft is the centerpiece of NASA\u2019s Quesst mission to demonstrate technology to fly supersonic, or faster than the speed of sound, without generating loud sonic booms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/quesst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keep up with X-59 on the NASA Quesst blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Carla Thomas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s X-59 is helping the nation celebrate the 250th anniversary of its independence with an update to its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-401010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}