The Gossamer Condor relied on pedal power.
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<p>SpaceX's Dragon capsule makes another jump.</p>
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The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., was built to honor the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during that conflict, the more than 400,000 who died, and all who supported their efforts from the homefront. But the Greatest Generation is aging rapidly, and about 1,200 World...
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<p>Centaurus A and its amazing jet display.</p>
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Back in the 1970’s Paleolithic age of lunar studies, scientists were busy using images of the Moon in an attempt to understand lunar processes and history.
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The first living creatures to venture into orbit and return safely
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Just two weeks ago, the Commemorative Air Force returned its B-29 Superfortress, Fifi, to flight after six years of down time while the airplane was fitted with customized engines (maintainers had found metal shavings in the engine oil). The CAF planned to re-launch Fifi as the signature aircraft f...
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<p>A very durable record.</p>
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Scenes from aviation's annual pilgrimage
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Every ten years or so, the nation's astronomers put their heads (actually committees) together to come up with a collective wish list for the projects they'd like to see funded over the next decade. Politicians tend to like this method of setting scientific priorities, as it saves them from choosin...
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<p>When the space shuttle took baby steps.</p>
Here's Stephen Hawking, commenting on humanity’s future: ...Our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only c...
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Lit-rock meets Holst.
With UAVs becoming more capable and taking on more missions each day, military users are clamoring for one feature in particular: longer dwell time in the air.DARPA's Vulture program aims to build an unmanned vehicle that could stay up for five years. That's still quite a stretch, considering that ...
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<p>A 25-year milestone.</p>
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The never-ending saga of water on the Moon continues apace.
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<p>It's a pretty cool cosmos.</p>
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The cabaret known as the U.S. Air Force's KC-X tanker competition is getting in some high-kicks now, baby. This summer, a little known company with 30 employees called U.S. Aerospace, which had changed its name from New Century only last March, and which has had some recent questions surrounding it...
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<p>But I'm a lot higher.</p>
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How do you complete a marathon in four minutes? In a jet fighter, of course, at 400-plus knots
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