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<p>Mailable dresses push the envelope.</p>
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Oscar Wilde once noted that aestheticism is the search for the secret of life. So what better place to turn the lens of aestheticism than images of our universe?
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<p>This Shuttle photographer favored Polaroids over pixels.</p>
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Newly recognized "hollows" on the planet Mercury help to inform us about the origin, history and processes associated with landforms on the Moon.
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<p>Nano-scale particles flatten the jagged peaks in aircraft paint.</p>
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Volcanic activity on the moon, traveling to asteroids, and crashing galaxies are a few of the topics covered in free lectures at the National Air & Space Museum.
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The F-35B makes its first vertical landing at sea
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<p>This Demon flies without flaps or ailerons.</p>
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With China building its own space station, a veteran U.S. astronaut says it’s time for NASA and its partners to extend an invitation.
When the [Virginia] earthquake struck on August 23, it unnerved most of the staff and visitors at the National Air and Space Museum —except patrons in the IMAX® theaters.
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Teams gathered their experimental planes in Santa Rosa, California last week for a competition of their environmental industriousness.
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<p>A powerful new observatory opens for business in Chile.</p>
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A new book reopens the 50-year-old mystery of how U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others died in a plane crash on September 18, 1961
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<p>Vegetables grown in O'Hare’s vast space.</p>
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Designs for a fanciful Civil War airplane fetch big bucks at auction.
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Manned and Unmanned join forces in a training exercise.
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NOAA, taking a page from one of the best worst disaster movies, has designed a tiny plane to measure the heartbeat of a hurricane.
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<p>A new satellite returns its first map of global sea salinity.</p>
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Pretty much all of the Chinese high school students who attended Space Camp last month were exceptional, but two of the 16-year-olds stood out even in select company.
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