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Not Your Average Airport

<p>For the Germans, an airport can be so much more.</p>

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Searching for the Moon’s Mantle

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Leroy Chiao on Working With the Chinese

Last week the Obama White House released its National Space Policy, a document put forward by every administration since Eisenhower's. The report gives each president a chance to articulate his vision for the nation's space activities.The new plan is notable in its call for international cooperatio...

100614-N-1894S-095 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (June 14, 2010) In preparation for the 2011 Great Lakes Centennial, more than 7400 staff and students from Training Support Center, Recruit Training Command, Hospital Corps School and many other tenant commands at Naval Station Great Lakes recreated the Living Flag from 1917 on National Flag Day at Ross Field. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Gas Turbine Electrician David C. Smith/Released)

Happy 4th

<p>Look closely.</p>

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HAM the Astrochimp

"He was every bit the astronaut that any of the Mercury 7 were."

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Aviation's "It" Girl

Airplanes and The Movies came of age at the same time, and Harriet Quimby—best known as the first American woman to earn a pilot's license—had a keen interest in both. In fact, by the time she fatally crashed her Blériot XI on this day in 1912, there was little the adventure-loving 37-year-old hadn...

Although an F-107A pilot would have had difficulty checking his six, he probably could have outrun his adversary. In 1956 tests, the aircraft reached Mach 2.

Century Series Wannabe

North American F-107A

For the wounded on Luzon in 1945, the Sikorsky R-6A transport doubled as an ambulance.

Medevac From Luzon

A small band of helicopter pilots risked their lives to rescue wounded soldiers during World War II.

A crew member filmed cloud behavior.

Climate Control

Irving Langmuir tried to change the world one storm at a time.

The shuttle main engine is the most tested large rocket engine in the world. In 1996, a turbine component (displayed here by a NASA scientist) underwent airflow tests to help engineers create more efficient aircraft engines.

Evolution of the Space Shuttle

How 30 years changed the world's most complex flying machine.

The Mizar at Oxnard Airport in August 1973.

Oldies and Oddities: A Different Kind of Hybrid

Oldies and Oddities: A Different Kind of Hybrid

Sometimes training was a hair-raising proposition, as this May 23, 1910 letter from Brookins to Orville Wright

Moments and Milestones: Mile-High Man

Moments and Milestones: Mile-High Man

February 8, 2010, 4:14am; Space Shuttle Endeavor Launch as seen from the Intracoastal Waterway Bridge in Ponte Vedra, Florida, 115 miles from the launch pad.

Sightings: Cause for Reflection

Endeavour lights up the sky—and water—in Florida.

One of his early photos is of the 1937 M-156 flying boat, which Glenn Martin offered to Pan American World Airways. Instead, Aeroflot took one — the only one.

Tribute to an Aviation Journalist

If you read airplane magazines, you've seen Howard Levy's photographs.

Over its 35-year career, the F-15C (here on a training mission over the Pacific Ocean) remains the air combat champ, with 104 victories and no losses.

The Last Gunslinger

The F-15C is the only dedicated dogfighter left in the U.S. military fleet. Why isn't the Air Force replacing it?

The 609th Air Commando Squadron flew out of Nakhon Phanom airfield in eastern Thailand.

Truck Killer

For one mission in Vietnam, the best aircraft for the job was a bomber from World War II

Dale Snodgrass is known as a virtuoso of the F-14 (left, with squadron ops officer Dirk Hebert at right, in 1990).

The Real Top Gun

Nobody handled a Tomcat like Snort

From images sent by the Huygens probe in 2005, scientists created this view of Titan from 30,000 feet — about the altitude at which an airplane would cruise.

Titan Air

Saturn's mysterious moon may have airplanes in its future.

Still life with telescope, feline, and feet. Even the National Air and Space Museum uses a Dobsonian telescope to show visitors the sun.

Above & Beyond: It’s All Sawdust and Mirrors

Above & Beyond: It’s All Sawdust and Mirrors

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Couch Potatoes

<p>The space program comes to a low boil.</p>

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