NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight ...

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NASA is getting ready to go supersonic. The U.S. space agency's experimental X-59 jet designed to eventually travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight from California.