Air & Space Magazine

At Kandahar airfield, Afghans and Western coalition members celebrate the activation of the Afghan air force’s second wing.

The New Afghanistan Air Force

How the U.S. military is training Afghans to fly.

Thomas Keilig manages SOFIA’s telescope and science instruments.

A 747 for Star-gazing

How engineers altered a jumbo jet to carry the world's biggest airborne telescope.

From the cockpit of a Coast Guard HC-144 patrol plane, the armada surrounding the Deepwater Horizon rig last June appears placid.

The Other Gulf War

After the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 200 aircraft took up the fight to save the coast.

Navy Tests Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS)

You've Got EMALS

The EMALS systems gets off the ground, literally

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Harrier Instructors

<p>Twice as good at it.</p>

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The Daring Mr. Moisant

The most celebrated American aviator of 1910 took up flying as an act of revenge.

"Roger, Roger. What's our Vector, Victor?"

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A Short Jog

<p>The President stretches his legs after a trip on Air Force One.</p>

Concorde: Flying Supersonic

For 27 years, the Concorde carried passengers across the Atlantic Ocean at twice the speed of sound, on the very edge of space

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Merry Christmas

<p>From the Christmas Bullet.</p>

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The Other Mrs. Simpson

Every December 17, National Air and Space Museum senior curator Tom Crouch attends the annual wreath-laying ceremony in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, to mark the anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight. This year I tagged along. Our first stop was the Outer Banks History Center in near...

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Bella Luna

Flying under a lunar eclipse.

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Rare Views Inside the Soyuz

I was surprised by these photos, but I shouldn't have been.Most pictures of Russian space crews in the Soyuz TMA vehicle show them squished together like sardines, sitting side by side on their launch "couches." I've always wondered how they can move their arms, let alone get anything done, during ...

The Washington Monument is seen as the full moon is shadowed by the Earth during a total lunar eclipse on the arrival of the winter solstice, Tuesday, December 21, 2010 in Washington. From beginning to end, the eclipse lasted about three hours and twenty-eight minutes. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Full Moon?

<p>Not for a few hours last night.</p>

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Scott Kelly's Home Video

Lots of space station astronauts have narrated video tours of their digs in space. This one, by current ISS commander Scott Kelly, struck me as more intimate, like a friend showing you around his new house:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4dG9vSyUFQSpeaking of Kelly, the recent slip of his twin brot...

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Can we afford to return to the Moon?

We are almost at the end of a year that has seen major changes in our space program.

Two F-15E Strike Eagles sit on the flightline during sunset Dec. 6, 2010, at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. The aircraft are assigned to the 391st and 389th Fighter Squadrons. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Debbie Lockhart)

Birds of Prey...

<p>...know they're cool.</p>

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Not Your Father's Blimp

What looks like Ronaldo's nightmare is in fact the world's largest soccer ball airship, built by E-Green Technologies of Kellyton, Alabama. Why, you ask? It seems everyone's crazy about airships these days, for everything from military surveillance to tourism. E-Green just signed a deal with NASA's...

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New Light on the Lunar Poles

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The Astronaut's Husband

The second half of the space station Expedition 26 crew headed off to work this afternoon, as Russian Dmitry Kondratyev, Italian Paolo Nespoli, and American Cady Coleman were launched on the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Coleman, a two-time shuttle astronaut, began her six-mont...

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