Air & Space Magazine

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“We’ve been there before. Buzz has been there.”

During a carefully staged appearance at Kennedy Space Center yesterday, President Barack Obama rolled out his plans for the U. S. space program.

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President and CEO

<p>Reflections on human spaceflight past and future.</p>

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Momentous Memorabilia

“Well I can’t say that this thing hasn’t been filled with excitement,” said astronaut Jim Lovell as Apollo 13's crew crowded into the Command Module Odyssey—following the explosion of an onboard tank in the Service Module—and headed back to Earth. CapCom immediately joked, "Well, James, if you can'...

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Classic Ride

<p>How does 13,000 horsepower sound?</p>

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Seven Slow Seconds

As opponents and advocates square off in Congress this year over the future of NASA's human spaceflight program, expect fireworks. But don't expect anything to happen too quickly. Kind of like this super-slo-mo video, which should bring out the pyro in you: the seven-seconds that the space shuttle ...

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To Do The Heavy Lifting

Apollo 13 passing the Moon.

Apollo 13: Eyewitness to the Explosion

“Odyssey, You Have a Problem”

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Young and in Orbit

<p>We're not in Smolensk anymore, Titov.</p>

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Not Your Average Seagull

On April 13, Bonhams auction house will offer a 1917 Curtiss MF "Seagull" Flying Boat for sale. The MF (which stands for "Modernised F-boat") was developed in 1917 from the original F model, a design the U.S. Navy had been using since 1912/1913. (The F model was the most successful of the pre-war C...

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Planet Inferno

<p>Hot on the outside, and the inside.</p>

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Solar Impulse Takes Flight

Solar Impulse, the prototype of an airplane meant to fly around the world powered only by sunlight in 2012, made its maiden flight from Payerne, Switzerland yesterday. According to flight test leader (and former astronaut) Claude Nicollier, “We reached all objectives, especially the safe landing, w...

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Submarine Plane

<p>World War II gives up another ghost.</p>

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The Corsair in Zazzy Red Lipstick

A makeshift  screen hung from a support rig that read “Three Tons.” Dave Morris, a curator from Britain’s Fleet Air Arm Museum, projected on it three slides: Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus,” a Ming vase, and a Chippendale end table. “What if these were yours?” he asked the audience at the National Ai...

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Exhausted

<p>An F-16's business end can become art as well.</p>

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NASA Lost its Way

As we survey the wreckage and ruin of yet another NASA “return to the Moon” program, the inevitable “what went wrong?” arguments play out. 

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America In Space

“The first decade in the Space Age was a unique moment in human history,” says Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator Roger Launius. “For the first time, humanity ventured off its home planet, to explore the moon and elsewhere. And along the way, we experienced both excitement and someti...

Airman 1st Class David Eckert conducts his pre-flight checks on an F-15 Eagle during an exercise March 23, 2010, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. He is a technical aviation mechanic with the 18th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rey Ramon)

Shadow and Light

<p>Who knew an F-15 tail could be art?</p>

The launch of the first Falcon 9 v1.1 at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Spaceflight Safety: Shuttle vs. Soyuz vs. Falcon 9

The controversial decision to cancel NASA's Constellation Program

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A Kiss Before You Spacewalk

Maybe it's the advent of Twitter and Facebook. Maybe it's because there are only a few space shuttle flights left. But 50 years into the space age, NASA astronauts seem to be loosening up in the way they present themselves to the public.Case in point: this photo posted on the Twitter page of Clayto...

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Megacrater

<p>This asteroid packed some whack.</p>

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