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Advanced Air Mobility Mission

NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) research will transform our communities by bringing the movement of people and goods off the ground, on demand, and into the sky. This air transportation system of the future will include low-altitude passenger transport, cargo delivery, and public service capabilities.

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NASA is delivering data to guide the industry's development of electric air taxis and drones and to assist the Federal Aviation Administration in safely integrating these vehicles into the national airspace. This will set the stage for a flourishing industry by 2030.

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Aeronautics Research

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Parimal Kopardekar (PK)

Latest News About AAM

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NASA's Advanced Air Mobility Playbook

Hear from some of our Advanced Air Mobility experts to learn about NASA’s important role in the creation of this exciting new industry. 

Read the Stories and Watch the Videos about NASA's Advanced Air Mobility Playbook
Artist illustration of an unmanned passenger aircraft preparing to land on the vertiport.

NASA Aeronautics Projects Contributing to the AAM Mission

Illustration of a quad-copter drone over a smoke-filled sky.

Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations Project

The project is enabling remotely piloted aircraft to identify, monitor and suppress wildfires 24 hours a day.

Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications, is shown

Air Mobility Pathfinders Project

The project will tackle one of the most important challenges in the AAM industry: researching how to safely integrate emerging electric air taxi technologies into cities and the National Airspace System.

Artist's concept of various types of flying vehicles operating in an urban environment

Air Traffic Management-eXploration Project

The project will transform the air traffic management system to safely accommodate the growing demand of new air vehicles to enter the airspace to perform a variety of missions.

A drone flies in the foreground while a person wearing a hat, sunglasses, and yellow safety vest pilots the drone in the background, with a forest behind.

Convergent Aeronautics Solutions Project

The project invests in seemingly improbable ideas that might lead to solutions to the problems that plague aviation and impact safety, environmental and community impact, and the global growth in air traffic.

Artist concept of a vertical lift vehicle at a vertiport at sunset.

Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology Project

The project is working with its partners to develop critical technologies that enable revolutionary new air travel options, such as large cargo-carrying vehicles and passenger-carrying air taxis.

systemwide safety project

System-Wide Safety Project

NASA’s System-Wide Safety project is developing innovative data solutions to assure safe, rapid, and repeatable access to a transformed National Airspace System.

Artist illustration of A small testbed aircraft to explore what happens in flight using Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion.

Transformational Tools and Technologies Project

The project develops state-of-the-art computational and experimental tools and technologies that are vital to the ability to advance the prediction of future aircraft performance in flight.

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AAM Playbook en Español

There are many stories on the Aeronautics en Español site that are translated for the Spanish speaking audience.

Learn about the technological advances developed by NASA through the AAM Playbook series and other Aeronautics-related stories and videos that have been translated into Spanish.

Learn More about AAM Playbook en Español
Avión en vuelo con pantallas que muestran alertas para el clima.
La misión de Movilidad Aérea Avanzada de la NASA contribuye a garantizar la seguridad operativa de esta nueva clase de aviones que está desarrollando la industria. Este arte conceptual representa cómo podría ayudar la incorporación de tecnologías automatizadas a la aeronave, como la evitación de peligros.
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AAM Mission Files to Download

Artist concept of unmanned eVTOl and drone in flight against a pink sky.

Advanced Air Mobility Lithograph

Oct 16, 2024

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Artist 3-D illustration of an unmanned passenger aircraft.

AAM 101 Presentation (PDF)

Dec 11, 2023

PDF (4.01 MB)

AAM Technical Papers

A quad rotor, remotely piloted drone hovers, while mounted sensors gather weather, temperature, pressure, relative humidity, and three-dimensional wind data.

AAM Technical Papers

Explore the NASA STI Repository (also known as the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)) to find information such as conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, and technical videos and more – scientific and technical information (STI) created or funded by NASA.

AAM STEM Toolkit

The Advanced Air Mobility STEM Toolkit provides a range of activities for inquiring minds to discover the world of advanced air mobility by interacting with hands-on activities, interactive lessons and more.

Learn More about AAM STEM Toolkit
Artist illustration of a rotorcraft cargo transport flying over the Loading Bay 3 warehouse preparing to land on the vertiport.
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