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In a new autobiography, an Apollo 15 pilot tells what it was like to fly solo.
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Take a fantasy flight in a real, live Liberator
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In more innocent times, it was okay to buzz the Capitol.
Wallops Island and I don’t get along
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<p>Summer school for fresh shooters</p>
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<p>NASA satellites capture burning images of the American West.</p>
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With a sunny and hopefully unmistakable new design for its flight attendant call button, Boeing illuminated passengers on which button to press
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By moving forward on their mission to convert the U.S. fleet of Space Shuttles into museum pieces, the administration has shifted NASA into neutral
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The Dawn spacecraft continues to close in on Vesta, one of the last unexplored objects of appreciable size between here and Pluto
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<p>Super Hornet goes draggin' in Australia.</p>
How did he ever pass flight school, much less become a top gun pilot?
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<p>Sea level is rising faster than it has in 2,000 years.</p>
How do you pack a $2.5 billion Mars rover for shipment? Here’s how
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One hundred years ago: Robert Falcon Scott and the crew of the Terra Nova enjoy a celebratory dinner, Midwinter's Day, Antarctica, 1911
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Gene Breiner got a little choked up when he handed over his 1929 Fleet Model 2 to the National Air and Space Museum
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“One of the interesting things about airships,” says Tom Crouch, is that they were “transitional technology"
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<p>Splash Out the Sound</p>
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Airbus calls its Concept Plane for 2050 an aircraft “inspired by nature”
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<p>Final salute at sea.</p>
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A test flight reaches one mile in the sky
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