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Man's best friend on the front lines
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Eight biplanes from the golden age.
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A review of the year in space. It's not pretty
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Trading Rudolph's nose for a Hornet.
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On past missions, I've missed two Thanksgivings, Christmas, New Years, birthdays, anniversaries, a science fair, recitals, and Valentine’s Day
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NASA's Dawn reaches a new low in its study of asteroid Vesta.
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You can lead a pilot to a rest period, but you can’t make him sleep.
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Exercising proper space etiquette, it is best not to give the newly arrived too strong a hug
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North American airlines lost their bid to throw out a carbon tax on aircraft flying to Europe. Expect transatlantic fares to go up
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From my perspective, I will soon be sitting in my rocket watching everyone on Earth move off into the frontier
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Marking 60 years of air evacuations to hospital ships.
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Lockheed Martin held their first Tweetup this week, inviting fans to see the last F-22 roll out of the factory. So what's a Tweetup and how did they start?
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Tomorrow we walk to our rocket and climb the stairway that leads into space
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Writing on the wall has been going on since humans lived in caves. Should I trace the outline of my hand? Should I draw a mastodon? Maybe a rocket
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I have a symbiotic relationship with my spacesuit. I take care of it, and it takes care of me in return
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A new space station crew heads into orbit on Wednesday.
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Alert: If you see a Starfighter in a parking lot, contact this Dutch museum
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There’s more to a Space Station mission than just the time in orbit
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Since the dawn of airmail, the Postal Service has reminded the nation to get out Christmas cards in time. Pioneering pilot Felix Pawloski was either miraculously efficient or decades late with this photo, which he used as the cover of a Christmas card in 1931 even though it was taken while he sat in the cockpit of a Bleriot XI in 1910 at Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France. Santa Claus has been a feature of aviation-theme cards since the era of ballooning. Just before Christmas of 1943, though, the 385th Bomb Group in England loaded their B-17F with a less Merry greeting.
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<p>In 1930, Brazil paid in coffee for a shipment of Italian-built airplanes.</p>
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