Air & Space Magazine

Peterson's M2-F2 after the crash.

A Historic Crash and its Legacy

The real "Six Million Dollar Man"

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Enter the Firebird

Northrop Grumman has entered a new vehicle in the red-hot field of military reconnaissance with its Firebird UAV, built by Scaled Composites. And this one can fly with or without a pilot.According to the company's press release, the Firebird is a versatile spy plane: it can return high-definition v...

AFIE -- Structural Maintenance Tech. Sgt. Kevin Ponton, examines the wing surface of a B-2 Spirit Bomber at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada on Oct. 21st. Ponton is a member of the 509th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. He and several other personnel from Whiteman were sent on temporary duty to Nellis to maintain the B-2 Spirit Bombers that are participating in EXERCISE Red Flag 04-01. Red Flags are war exercises that allow combat aircrews training in the most realistic simulated war environment possible. (U.S. Air Force photo by MSgt Michael R. Nixon) Released. VIRIN: 031021-F-3356N-010

Spirit

<p>Just another day at the office.</p>

Part of a damaged helicopter is seen lying near the compound after U.S. Navy SEAL commandos killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.

Helo With a Halo

The mysterious stealth chopper U.S. Navy SEALs left behind

Virgil Tracy (foreground) flanked by bro Gordon (orange sash), and engineer "Brains" (who designs the team's equipment).

Thunderbirds Are Go!

Relive the classic TV show at the Royal Air Force Museum

Shepard’s Shot

The first American spaceflight was a triumph—for an astronaut and for a nation.

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50 Years of Spaceflight

Honoring the Pioneers, From Gagarin to Shepard to Yang Liwei

United States Postal Service Vice President of Finance Steve Masse, left, and NASA Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter, unveil two USPS stamps to commemorate and celebrate 50 years of US Spaceflight and the MESSENGER program during an event, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. One stamp commemorates NASA’s Project Mercury, America’s first manned spaceflight program, and NASA astronaut Alan Shepard’s historic flight on May 5, 1961, aboard spacecraft Freedom 7. The other stamp draws attention to NASA’s unmanned MESSENGER mission, a scientific investigation of the planet Mercury. On March 17, 2011, MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to enter into orbit around Mercury. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Mercuries

<p>Sending a spaceflight message.</p>

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Who's short-sighted?

Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan recently voiced his doubts and concerns over the future of the human spaceflight program

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So You Want to Live on Mars? Really?

A one-way trip would test our dedication to the idea of settling the Red Planet.

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About Those Sleeping Air Traffic Controllers

It wasn't as dire or life-threatening as some reports led you to believe.

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JSF

<p>It offers a Grand view.</p>

The testing vacuum chamber, containing the 50kW VASIMR.

VASIMR: Still Hot

The future of rocket propulsion

Almost finished: NASA's Michael Suffredini, with a model of the International Space Station.

Assembly (Nearly) Complete

NASA's space station manager looks back with satisfaction at one of history's greatest construction projects.

George Mueller follows the progress of the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.

A&S Interview: George Mueller

One of the guiding geniuses behind the Apollo program

During World War II, Navy Commander Paul Garber developed a target kite (bearing the silhouette of a Japanese aircraft) for U.S. Navy ship-to-air gunnery practice.

In the Museum

Paul Garber: Eyewitness to History

Crew chief Dick Lofland, left, with pilot Bob Ferry before the record-setting flight.

Moments and Milestones: Now, That’s Good Mileage

Moments and Milestones: Now, That’s Good Mileage

NASA’s outhouse.

Last Bathroom for 200 Miles

When an astronaut's gotta go...

Media coverage of the Bay of Pigs fiasco was unbridled. Far right: the narrator, as a staff sergeant in the Alabama Air National Guard in the 1950s.

Above and Beyond

Mission: Cuba. Status: Top secret.

After World War II, Yuri’s father Alexei disassembled the family home and moved it to Gzhatsk (now Gagarin), where it is a museum.

The Family He Left Behind

Fifty years ago, Yuri Gagarin left earth. When he came back, everything changed.

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