Air & Space Magazine

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Gratitude for the Backyard Astronomer

An annual award recognizes amateurs for finding rocks in the sky

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Geological sampling and planetary exploration

Samples from other worlds provide some key information on planetary evolution and history but are they the only way to obtain such knowledge?

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Gecko Dust and Stars

<p>An interstellar dust cloud and a star cluster stick out from the Milky Way background.&nbsp;</p>

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Rainbow's End

<p>An A-10C arrives to a colorful welcome in Arizona.</p>

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Hersman for DOT

NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman's mix of intellectual curiosity and fearlessness make her a good choice for Transportation Secretary

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Piled Up

<p>Airmen clear the way for an F-16.</p>

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Printing out a Moonbase

<p>The ESA is thinking about scooping up some lunar soil and hitting Command+P&nbsp;</p>

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The Experiment, Part Two

Can someone with only flight simulator experience take off and land an airplane on the first try? I wanted to find out

Artist's conception of asteroid 2012 DA14 passing through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013.

“Vermin of the Skies”

The JPL scientist in charge of tracking incoming asteroids tells us if we should be worried.

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Lightning in the Sky

<p>Spy this F-35C in the Maryland nighttime sky.&nbsp;</p>

An EA-6B Prowler launches from catapult three aboard the USS Enterprise.

Who Inspects the Navy’s Aircraft Carriers?

It takes a (uniformed) village

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Make Your Own Moon

<p>Can you &quot;see&quot; science?</p>

Debris from Columbia, arranged in place in a NASA hangar.

Reconstruction

After the Columbia accident, seeing the crew cabin of the destroyed shuttle was an emotional experience for many NASA astronauts

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In the Zero-G Cockpit

As the pilot of a 727 that simulates weightlessness, John Benisch is always searching for that perfect parabola.

A laser shoots from the Keck observatory dome to act as a guide star.

Adaptive optics and lasers are giving ground-based telescopes better-than-Hubble views.

Laser guide stars.

Each Voyager is providing new insights into a never-before-visited part of deep space.

More than 35 years into their mission, our farthest-flung spacecraft are not finished yet.

10 Billion Miles From Home

The stars and wispy gases of the constellation Camelopardalis, in the northern sky, await Voyager 1, which in 40,000 years will be sailing through.

Into The Great Unknown

The Voyagers begin the first real star trek.

The North American F-100F was the designated ride for Misty pilots.

The Misty Mystique

Over Vietnam, F-100 pilots flew fast and low. Later, they hit the heights.

Millions of visitors to the St. Louis Exposition were awed by the feats of aeronaut Roy Knabenshue (in New Jersey, fourth from left, in 1910, with Walter Brookins, in short-sleeve shirt, and Glenn Curtiss, wearing bicycle inner tube).

Two showmen, one dirigible, and the flight that changed aviation

Kings of the air.

Javier Arango (right) helps escort a SPAD XIII, built by Roger Freeman of Vintage Aviation Services in Texas.

A World War I Aircraft Enthusiast’s Collection Tracks the Evolution of the Species

Javier Arango goes on a mission to find authenticity by reconstructing airplanes.

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