The first jumbo jet has transported the equivalent of 80 percent of the human race.
Maligned and abandoned, the prototype Northrop X-4 Bantam gets a restoration after 65 years.
Today’s manual of fighter tactics was written 100 years ago, in World War I.
The James Webb Space Telescope will see out to the universe’s edge.
Items from the Austrian daredevil’s record-setting jump enter the Museum’s collections.
However impractical, the hydrogen airship was a big hit with crowds in 1905.
Digging out a crashed F-104 in a Spanish village in 1964, I made some unexpected friends.
A guide to snark hunting at Nevada’s secure test-flight base.
An Expedition 38 crew member took in the view of Earth below and part of one of the Russian modules while waiting for the arrival of a Progress cargo ship, carrying 2.8 tons of supplies for the space station.
A new study says carbon dioxide levels on board the station should be lowered.
Raised near an Air Force base, she thought it sounded somewhere between a cello and a double bass.
The <a href="http://www.planetimager.org/">Gemini Planet Imager</a> took this <a href="http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2014/pr-planet-camera-macintosh-051614.html">best view yet of an alien world</a>. Beta Pictorus b, several times the size of Jupiter, is more than 63 light-years from Earth and was captured in this 60-second exposure -- a degree in magnitude faster than previous instrument capability. The Planet Imager, which began construction a decade ago, is the next generation <a href="http://www.airspacemag.com/space/how-things-work-laser-guide-stars-3916929/">adaptive optics</a> instrument at the Gemini South Telescope in Chile, and had its first light in January 2014.
UAVs will make the world a better place, says Pocket Drone inventor Timothy Reuter.
Earth as seen from the Moon is always in the same place – true or false? It depends.
In 1963, the State Department was understandably nervous about the longest American spaceflight to date.
Penetrator probes may be the perfect way to prospect for life on other planets.
On May 7, 2014, the auction house <a href="http://lempertz.com/">Lempertz</a> offered up this Russian VA re-entry capsule, developed as part of the <a href="http://www.russianspaceweb.com/tks.html">TKS spacecraft</a>, along with two Sokol spacesuits at its Brussels location. (Here it is for <a href="http://vimeo.com/92365485">a viewing in Berlin first</a>.) The capsule flew, unmanned, twice in the late 1970s and <a href="http://lempertz-spacesale.com/">went to an anonymous buyer</a> for $1.72 million. The two spacesuits went for $96,000 and $83,000.
Qantas is looking for submissions to its “Spew Bag Challenge.”
When the astronauts sleep aboard the International Space Station, only minimal lightning stays on, including emergency lights that point the way to the Soyuz spacecraft in case they need to evacuate.
New cameras on the space station give the rest of us an astronaut’s-eye view.
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