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<p>Thingvallavatn serves as a runway.</p>
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The Germans had it. The Americans wanted it.
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A Navy admiral emphasizes interservice solidarity
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If we haven’t heard from extraterrestrials, maybe it’s because we’re not using the right technology—yet
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<p>A young pilot rebuilds an airplane engine.</p>
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Seven decades after it first flew, the V-173 got its old look back.
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Steve Hinton and Voodoo triumph at the National Championship Air Races
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His portrait is there, anyway, thanks to Italian state TV and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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<p>It takes concentration for a mid-air refueling.</p>
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A 36-year-old spacecraft becomes the first to enter interstellar space
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<p>A new Chilean observatory takes a close look at a Herbig-Haro object.</p>
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Researchers at the University of Puerto Rico are keeping a list
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<p>Soldiers sit with a captured German airplane.</p>
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The moon may be a dead rock, but NASA’s newest lunar mission holds interest for astrobiologists
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<p>A Sea Knight waits for the clear.</p>
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Stealth fighters, nuclear rocket designs, and a new lunar lander all were on display at MAKS 2013
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New sightings of water on the Moon, roadmaps for exploration and commercial lunar flights
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<p>The infrared telescope keeps on truckin'.</p>
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How to keep our balsa wood airplane from being nose- or tail-heavy requires some careful planning
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The most classified technology in a stealthy airplane is its skin
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