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<p>From below. Or is it above?</p>
Once you get used to the slightly overcaffeinated host, this is a pretty cool project —to drop a bunch of paper airplanes from a high-altitude balloon and see where they land. The team launched their balloon earlier this month, as the video shows. But, from what I can tell on their website and Twit...
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The F-111, beloved by pilots in America and Australia, takes to the air for the last time
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<p>For those lost while pushing the limits.</p>
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Hubble has done it again, squinting deeper into the universe, and hence farther back in time, than ever before. What it sees is a little smudge of light that turned out to be the most distant galaxy ever detected, 13.2 billion light-years away. It's not seeable in visible light, only in infrared. T...
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<p>Time to go to work.</p>
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No, it's not some freakish genetics experiment. It's NASA's Super Guppy transport hauling around a couple of T-38s. Read about it here.
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Roy Tucker has the answer.
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China performs high-speed tests on its new stealth fighter
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The only flight of the Osprey's fifth prototype lasted less than two minutes, and it was one wild ride.
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<p>Seen one, you've seen 'em all? Not yet.</p>
A new "untold history" of the V-22 asks: Is the Osprey safe?
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Dick Merrill: aviation pioneer.
It's a very cool animation, and the idea is certainly sensible: use existing shuttle external tank, four-segment boosters, and space shuttle main engines, without the expense of a reusable orbiter. But with Orion riding beside and below the external tank, doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of go...
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<p>Remembering an inauguration.</p>
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The shuttle landing just 10 days before the <i>Challenger</i> accident seemed like it was from another era.
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<p>Actually, a Hubble-Chandra Bubble-Bauble.</p>
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<p>Global Observer makes water.</p>
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We probably shouldn't call them space tourists, even in a headline. The seven people who have visited the International Space Station as paying customers of the Virginia-based booking agency Space Adventures all worked very hard—before, during, and after their flights. None of them spent their time...
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