Air & Space Magazine

Fig. 1 Stereo view of the Apollo 15 landing site. See text for viewing instructions.

Look Ma! No Glasses!

A geologist uses topographic maps to measure slopes, depths, heights and the general shape of landforms.

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Goldilocks

<p>She's been found.</p>

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An Artistic Sendoff for the Shuttle's Last Tank

Space shuttle historian Dennis Jenkins took a poignant ride alongside the vehicle's last external tank on Monday as it completed its long journey to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. A NASA contract engineer with 30 years in the shuttle program,  Jenkins also is the author of Space Shuttle...

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Russian Animals in Space

A documentary celebrates the famous and not-so-famous pioneers of spaceflight.

The Bennett-Rodebaugh Company was a bush-flying outfit in 1920s Alaska.

Bush Flying in Alaska

The former territory’s first pilots didn’t let snow, ice, and a lack of runways stop them from building a new industry.

Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson, left, Commander Alexander Skvortsov, center and Mikhail Kornienko sit in chairs outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after they landed near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Russian Cosmonauts Skvortsov and Kornienko and NASA Astronaut Caldwell Dyson, are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 23 and 24 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Warm Welcome

<p>But let me sit down for a second...</p>

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Saturn's Southern Lights

<p>The best light show in the solar system.</p>

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NASA v. The Scientists

A band of space scientists and engineers take their fight for privacy all the way to the Supreme Court.

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UAVs for Congress

The bumper stickers available at the door read, "My other vehicle is unmanned."More and more, that's becoming true for a variety of government agencies—and not just the defense department—as was evident at the UAV Technology Fair held yesterday at the Rayburn House office building in Washington, D....

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"Ah, Dr. Mach!"

On this day in 1953, 21-year-old North Korean pilot No Kum-Sok astonished the American flyers at Kimpo Air Base in South Korea by landing in the middle of their runway and surrendering—thus becoming the first MiG pilot to defect to the West. In his fascinating 1996 book, A MiG-15 to Freedom, No (w...

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Swarming Over Switzerland

This looks like fun work.And the people on the SMAVNET Project think they set a record for the largest number of flying robots (10) deployed at a single time outdoors.

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Galloping Gold?

<p>Not in this kind of wind.</p>

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Dune Cruiser

<p>Still plenty hot at 6:00 in the evening.</p>

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A New Record for Mars 500

When I saw this new image of the six guys locked inside the Mars 500 mission simulation chamber in Moscow, I feared for their mental health.But they seem to be doing fine. In fact, they just broke the previous Mars chamber endurance record:

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"Totally Way Illegal Anywhere Else"

Where do old astronauts go? Some of them simply can't shake that need for speed, so they strap on exotic aircraft and sign up for the Reno National Championship Air Races. Of the three astronauts who have taken up air racing -- Hoot Gibson, Bill Anders, and Curt Brown -- Brown, a two-time Reno cham...

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Cuttin' It Close

<p>Jeb Corliss' excellent European vacation.</p>

The CST-100 is scheduled to begin testing in 2015.

Boeing's New Spaceship

The aerospace giant teams up with the world’s only space tourism agency to ferry passengers to orbit.

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Inspiration

Former space shuttle commander Frank Culbertson stepped up to the podium inside a hearing room in the Rayburn House office building yesterday morning, and talked about inspiration. He turned to his left and thanked moon walker Buzz Aldrin for a kind gesture last year during a visit to the Johnson S...

Here’s Looking at You, Floyd Bennett

New York City’s first municipal airport couldn’t take a bad picture.

Otto Lilienthal gliding.

The Legacy of Flight

Images from the archives of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

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