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 NASA’s Fundamental
Aeronautics Program (FAP) conducts long-term, cutting-edge research in
all flight regimes to address the major challenges of modern air
transportation: public concern over noise and emissions; the
sustainability of affordable air travel given the fluctuating cost and
availability of jet fuel; requirements for increasing mobility to meet
the growth of air transportation by 2025; and the need for progress
toward faster air transportation. FAP also conducts research associated
with air-breathing access to space, and entry and descent into
planetary atmospheres to support the Vision for Space Exploration.
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