For NASA, it's not just about space exploration.

It also helps innovate and pioneer new capabilities relating to air travel.

Case in point, the recently unveiled X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft developed with Lockheed Martin.

NASA has also been instrumental in the realization of flying taxis and just this week

announced an agreement with Archer Aviation.

The whole partnership is really going to focus around the safety aspects of urban air mobility.

And so we're starting with batteries.

That's the first place we start.

And we will go through a lot of

rigorous testing to just show not only just the performance capabilities but also

the safety capabilities of these cells. So if you think about it on the ground

when you're driving an EV, if you had an issue, you can always pull over.

In the air, you cannot.

And so when you look at a lot of NASA's experience, especially when you get to space,

the stakes are even higher.

So NASA has a lot of experience in really battle testing these types of technologies,

these types of cells, and we can apply to our vehicle,

take a lot of the lessons learned,

and really ensure that we're creating the safest form of

transportation out there.

Archer Aviation is a maker of electric vertical takeoff and landing, Evitall, aircraft.

The NASA Partnership will center around developing high performance

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