Air & Space Magazine

The Cessna Skyhawk 172.

Airborne for 64 Days

In a Cessna 172, no less

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Giant Paper Airplanes Over Tucson

The Pima Air & Space Museum gets their paper project off the ground.

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Legacy of a Space Titan

Wernher von Braun was born one hundred years ago, but his blueprint for space exploration still has relevance today.

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The Designing Life

This year’s National Air and Space Museum lifetime achievement award winner, Burt Rutan, talks about music, golf and his favorite chair.

Ed White peers out the window during his Gemini IV mission.

Ghosts of Gemini

Forgotten photos show the human face of NASA’s early astronaut program

Dragon Lady: A Portrait Gallery

Once a top secret, the U-2 is one photogenic spyplane

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I Flew the U-2

One of Lockheed’s former chief test pilots for high altitude reconnaissance describes the joys and terrors of the U-2.

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Volcanism in Far Places

The Planetary Science Institute has released a new geological map of Jupiter's moon Io, integrating information taken by the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft.

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A Man, A Plane, A Canal-Like Thing

The Gonnell Uniplan combined canal boat with parachute.

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Can We Repurpose Space Assets?

A lost Russian communications satellite has the potential to teach us about operations on the Moon.

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Painting of the Green

The Poseidon P-8A joins the Navy, and changes color.

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A Capital Landing

A look back at Claude Grahame-White's 1910 landing next to the White House.

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Mar Del Fuego

The bright lights of oil platforms appear as sparkling constellations off the coast of South America.

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Welcome Campers

The Air Force Services Agency sounds its bugle for three summer youth camps.

The suspect B-17 bomber commander (Captain Werner Goering, far right) and the co-pilot who had orders to kill him (First Lieutenant Jack Rencher, far left).

Göring’s Nephew

A bizarre case of mistaken identity almost cost a World War II B-17 commander his life

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See You Next Orbit

NASA's Suomi satellite pays careful attention to lighting.

ATREX will launch five sounding rockets into the thermosphere to study ultra-high altitude winds. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Rockets Over the East Coast

NASA is getting ready to launch a barrage of rockets that should be visible along the U.S. Eastern seaboard.

The author at Wethersfield, England, in 1969, and an early Super Sabre.

Radar Love

Before instrument landing systems, military pilots relied on controllers to steer them right to the runway.

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Sikorsky Wants to Pick Your Brain

AND the company will pay you for the privilege.

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Blood and Treasure

And a high-tech box to store it in.

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