The missile that has rattled enemy pilots since 1958
Late in World War II, the Bell P-63 became an aerial gunner's easiest target
How Florida’s Space Coast is bracing for the end of the space shuttle program.
A National Park Service project reclaims aviation history.
The nation's first mass-produced lightplane started as a homely, humble homebuilt.
Jeb Corliss says if the birds can do it, so can he
<p>Did we forget something?</p>
Now this is a charming idea, and maybe a handy one too – fleets of solar sails delivering pictures of distant worlds back to the home planet.Data is a valuable commodity in the Information Age, just as spices and silk were in centuries past. So Joel Poncy and his team at Thales Alenia Space have im...
The idea that ancient cultures were keen observers of the night sky is neither surprising nor new: think of the Druids, the Mayans, and the Babylonians. But most examples from the annals of archaeoastronomy seem to come from the northern hemisphere.Now a team of researchers from Macquarie Universit...
<p>As in, what was the Mustang's prototype called?</p>
The defense research agency DARPA recently selected six companies to participate in a year-long program to transform a Humvee-like vehicle into an aircraft. Lockheed Martin and AAI Corporation are asked to supply something that can “avoid traditional and asymmetrical threats while avoiding road ...
<p>Then don't click here...</p>
A rush job ended with nearly 100 lives lost when a fully-fueled rocket ignited on the launchpad during testing.
Floating off to sleep, Earthgazing, making sure the capsule doesn't depressurize: all standard on a space vacation.
On September 28, 1924, crowds cheered and sirens shrieked as the Army Service pilots known as "the Magellans of the Air" landed at Sand Point Field in Seattle, Washington, after completing the first round-the-world flight.They had set off on April 6, some six months earlier, determined to circumnav...
<p>But up and running.</p>
Project 100 Communications is selling the car that Steve Fossett had hoped would set a land speed record. "Over $4 million is invested in this project," says the sales brochure, which translates: No aluminum wheel kickers.The vehicle is based on racing legend Craig Breedlove's late 1990s Spirit of ...
Around the Eiffel Tower in 1901.
Can government-funded human spaceflight be cheaper?
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