Air & Space Magazine

An emotional Gene Breiner (at lectern, with daughter Joyce and General Jack Dailey, director of the National Air and Space Museum) donated Plane Jane to the Museum this past June in hopes of inspiring future pilots.

In the Museum: A Fleet’s Final Flight

A civilian flight trainer enters the collections.

In 2004, salvagers pulled a Bell P-39 from a Siberian lake, where 60 years earlier pilot Ivan Baranovsky had crash-landed it.

Lieutenant Ivan Baranovsky’s P-39

An airacobra's journey to the eastern front...and back

AeroVironment’s Global Observer (in California last year), designed to fly for a week on hydrogen, will triple the endurance of experimental, gas-powered UVAS from the late 1980s.

Distance Runners

Unmanned aerial vehicles redefine the term "nonstop flight."

At Amsterdam's Schipol airport in the Netherlands, air traffic controllers oversaw 386,000 takeoffs and landings last year.

Heroes in the Tower

Stories about air traffic controllers that you probably didn’t see on the evening news.

When seven men got stuck in a grim patch of Greenland in 1948, the Air Force sent a B-17 to rescue them, but it got mired in soft snow (top of montage), only worsening the predicament.

Stranded

Four aircraft, 12 airmen, 25 days, 40 below zero, in the middle of nowhere.

In his flight jacket with 17th Bomb Group patch, Dick Cole looks ready to fly Panchito, a restored B-25J, at a Raider gathering in Punta Gorda, Florida, last March.

The Raiders Remember

In an annual ceremony, the last of the Doolittle Raiders recall their part in victory over Japan.

Staff Sergeant Michelle Torrey, right, with Master Sergeant Brett Kitzman load an AIM-120 missile onto an F-16.

The Changing of the Guard

Ten years after 9/11, what life is like in an Air National Guard unit.

Draper Lab team members Bobby Cohanim (in black shirt) and Eph Lanford check fittings and connections on TALARIS before running a test.

Leaping Lunar Landers!

Can a spacecraft hop its way to winning the Google Lunar X prize?

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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…

With Hurricane Irene safely behind us, I thought I’d share a story from my pre-airline days, about one of my scariest experiences as a pilot

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Destination: Moon or Asteroid? Part I: Operational Considerations

Asteroids became the next destination for human exploration as an alternative to the Moon

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Opportunity Knocks

<p>After a three-year journey, the hardy Mars rover has a new playground.</p>

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Time Lapse From Orbit

Here’s some more creative space photography from Ron Garan

HTV-2 test footage

Streaking Along at Mach 20

DARPA tests its hypersonic research vehicle

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The Shadowgraph Knows

<p>Gunners in WW2 learned enemy aircraft from their sinister silhouettes.</p>

NASA astronaut Rex Walheim walks past the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT) as the crew of STS-135 trains in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF) at the Johnson Space Center on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, in Houston. The training marked the crew's final scheduled session in JSC Building 9, or SVMF. ( NASA Photo / Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool )

Free Shuttle Artifacts!

The four orbiters are already taken, but thousands more shuttle-related items are still available—at no cost.

A gray-bellied Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 touches down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Why do airliners have dark bellies?

Actually, not all of them do

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A Pounding Thirst

<p>A Marine air exercise over coastal North Carolina.</p>

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Washington Shifts to the Left

Tuesday’s 5.8-magnitude earthquake in central Virginia moved the city of Washington D.C. a whopping 0.02 inches “to the northwest and downward.”

The World's Best Pickup Truck

A mainstay of air transportation, the Huey provided the soundtrack to the Vietnam War

The Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft is raised into vertical position at the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Sunday, June 5, 2011. The rocket is being prepared for launch June 8 to carry the crew of Expedition 28 to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Grounded

<p>Russia's Soyuz rocket suffers a rare failure, and a space station cargo ship is lost.</p>

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