Air & Space Magazine

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Tri-colored Arrows

<p>Uno spettacolo di dieci aeroplani.</p>

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SETI @ 50: Are We Getting Anywhere?

Most people date the modern Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to Frank Drake's Project Ozma, conducted in 1960 using the giant dish at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.Today through Wednesday, at an NRAO workshop, SETI-ologists will review where th...

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Building bridges

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The Day(s) Nobody Flew

September 11, 2001 was not the first time that all air traffic in the United States was halted.

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Half a Century Ago

<p>Plans for a big rocket moved forward.</p>

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Duck!

Today, two asteroids pass the Earth at a fairly snug distance. One, 2010 RX30, went by just before 6:00 a.m. EDT about 154,000 miles above the northern Pacific Ocean. That's equivalent to three-fifths the distance to the moon. The other one, 2010 RF12, goes by just after 5:00 p.m. EDT, above Antarc...

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Glamour Boy

The day Claude Grahame-White thrilled the crowd at the Boston-Harvard meet.

Senior Airman Jonathan Ordonez prepares to cover a KC-135 Stratotanker engine after a refueling mission July 8, 2010, during the Rim of the Pacific 2010 exercise at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. The exercise includes 14 nations, 34 ships, five submarines, about 100 aircraft and more than 20,000 participants. Airmen Ordonez is a crew chief with the 507th Aerial Maintenance Squadron at Tinker AFB, Okla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock)

Man, Metal, and Sky

<p>Even an engine can become artwork.</p>

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Plymouth Rock: 90 Days in a Minivan

At first I was excited to read press reports of a Lockheed-Martin concept for a bare-bones human asteroid mission, using a pair of Orion capsules yoked together. Finally, a near-term plan! Because the Orion is mostly built, the first "Plymouth Rock" mission could fly as early as 2016, nine years ea...

John Freeborn, second from right, relaxes with fellow Royal Air Force pilots from 74 Squadron at their base in Hornchurch, Essex, in August 1940. Also pictured: Roger Boulding (with dog) and Henryk Szczesny.

John Freeborn: 1919-2010

In a 2004 interview, an RAF hero recalled encounters with friends and enemies during the Battle of Britain.

Most pictures of the Venus surface are synthetic, like this view of a volcanic region called Eistla, created from Magellan orbital radar data. The SAGE lander would take actual photos from ground level.

Forbidden Planet

We’ve been to the moon. Mars is easy. But landing on Venus? That’s tough.

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Pégoud Flies Upside Down, 1913

French aviator Adolphe Pégoud ranks as one of the best and bravest pilots in history, and he knew how to wow a crowd. On this day in 1913 he introduced a trick that scared even other pioneers of flight—he flew upside down, for an audience at the Juvisy aerodrome outside Paris.A correspondent descri...

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On the Origin of Galaxies

Avi Loeb talks about his newest book, <i>How Did the Stars and Galaxies Form?</i>

Robert Hyman helped search for fellow adventurer Steve Fossett. The undertaking inspired him and other Fossett searchers to create MAST.

Cold Case

A new team sets out to solve old disappearances.

Search parties still hunt for Amelia Earhart, who vanished on July 2, 1937.

Checking In...

...on the Missing Persons File

Carl Schahrer, commander of the B-29 Boomerang, shows off the talisman, on which his crew carved their missions.

One More For The Checklist

For some pilots, a good-luck charm is standard equipment.

Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft flew past Earth three times, but experienced the flyby effect only once. Nobody knows why.

The Force Is With Them

What changes the speed of spacecraft flying by Earth?

What Made Yuri Fall?

Igor Kuznetsov reopened the Gagarin inquest to find out.

The "Texaco 13," the most famous Mystery Ship, set more than 200 speed records in the early 1930s.

Moments and Milestones: Travel Air’s Mystery Ship

Moments and Milestones: Travel Air’s Mystery Ship

In 2003, a 727 that once flew for American Airlines disappeared from Angola.

The 727 That Vanished

A case pursued by the FBI, the CIA, the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security, CENTCOM, and the sister of Ben Padilla

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