Air & Space Magazine

Plastic as a Sign of Civilization

We will know the extraterrestrials by their trash.

Zero2infinity's microbloon capsule being prepared for launch.

Will the Stratosphere Be 2020’s Hot Tourist Destination?

Flights could begin as early as 2016.

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Five-Card Moon Shot

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform the "Five-Card Loop" over California in May, 2014.

Glaciers past and present: (left) remnant morphologies shaped by past glacial activity on Aeolis Mons on Mars, and (right) Breiðamerkurjökull glacier in Iceland.

Glaciers on Mars, 3.5 Billion Years Ago

New evidence that the planet was once cold, wet—and perhaps habitable.

Astronauts will never land here, unless we change our ways.

To Mars! (But Not the Way We’re Going)

Hard advice in a new report on the future of human spaceflight.

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Galaxy Crash

Four clusters of galaxies produce spectacular collisions in this combined image from the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and the Hubble Space Telescope. The region is more than five billion light-years away, with the x-rays shown in blue and radio emissions shown in red.

The far side of the Moon from two spacecraft. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (left) mapped the far side at a variety of sun angles, allowing us to observe the morphology of the surface. Clementine mapped the Moon at high sun angles, emphasizing albedo contrasts. Both views show that this side of the Moon has much less dark, smooth maria than does the near side.

Fifty Shades of Darkness

A new explanation of the Moon’s early history is more confusing than illuminating.

Aviation Pranks, Circa 1910

If you wanted to spice up your lodge meeting at the turn of the 20th Century, the DeMoulin brothers had some suggestions.

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California Mustang

A P-51 Mustang flies over Inglewood, California in this 1942 photograph.

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Rope Test

Mississippi Army National Guard soldiers practice fast rope insertion in April 2014.

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Birds Make Landing on a Wire Look Easy. Now Try It With a Drone.

If engineers can master the technique, UAVs might be able to charge themselves on power lines.

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Historic Serbian Floods

This false color image from NASA's Terra satellite of the massive flooding in Serbia over a few weeks in May 2014 help with mapping and monitoring the situation.

Armstrong at the blackboard in 1974

Professor Armstrong

An online archive highlights the Apollo astronaut’s little-known life as an academic.

Artist’s conception of Pluto and Charon as seen from another of Pluto’s small moons.

An Ocean---Perhaps---on Pluto’s Moon Charon

New Horizons may find another water world when it reaches its destination.

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Super Take-Off

An F-100A Super Sabre takes off in 1957 on a NACA test flight.

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Tilting at Exercises

A CV-22 Osprey was part of the U.S. Air Force exercises in Florida last May.

Workers test one of the B-25’s .50 caliber Browning machine guns. Each gun was test-fired with a minimum of 25 rounds.

The Kansas City B-25 Factory

This hastily constructed plant produced 6,608 bombers during World War II

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One Day Only Dragon Show

Washington, D.C. space fans will get a treat on June 11, 2014, when the <a href="http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/ii-how-21st-century-spaceship-should-land-180951621/">brand new version of Space X's Dragon capsule</a> -- this one built for a crew -- goes on display for one day only at the <a href="http://newseum.org">Newseum</a>.

In 1933, Charles and Anne Morow Lindbergh flew survey flights across the North and South Atlantic in this Lockheed Sirius, nicknamed "Tingmissartoq," or "One who flies like a big bird."

Flight Suits or Goggles? How Museums Decide What to Exhibit

An inside look at the choices that went into creating a Lindbergh display

Artist’s view of Kapteyn b with the globular cluster Omega Centauri in the background.

Would Life Be More Advanced on a World Twice as Old as Earth?

Meet Kapteyn b, the oldest known exoplanet in the habitable zone.

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