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Bernard Pietenpol’s happiest moments came when he was flying one of his homebuilt airplanes—with a child or two in tow.
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Scenes of a Marine unit flying the incredible, versatile Osprey.
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<p>If it's got wings, it came to the right place.</p>
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Last fall, after much anticipation, the Augustine Committee presented us with their assessment of the future of space exploration.
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The 31 members of Class 136, U.S. Navy Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, which graduated last December, pitched in on a deluxe jet plane kiddie ride, wearing Test Pilot School livery and signed by each student. Says Damon Carson of Kiddie Rides USA, "The commanding officer and other st...
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Taking dogs and cats to new heights.
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A traveling exhibit from the space agency's right brain.
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<p>Coming to you in stereo.</p>
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This is the kind of thing that shows just how weirdly connected we've all become.The other day Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi was up on the space station, downloading pictures via Twitter that he'd taken out the window. He asked if anybody could identify a weird hexagonal shape in Australia....
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<p>She's got different wings now.</p>
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Space toys can be big business. In 2007, a toy Robby the Robot inspired by the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet was given a retail estimate of $4,500. But that's chump change compared to what Masudaya's Target Robot (right) went for at a recent auction at Dan Morphy—a whopping $52,900.True, the 15-in...
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<p>The first military pilot makes his solo flight.</p> <p> </p>
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Given all the angst recently about NASA astronauts needing a new destination, it's good to step back and review the options. There aren't many. There's the moon, of course, and Mars. A near-Earth asteroid. And one more possibility, often forgotten—the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.Tomorrow at 3:5...
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Last year, India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter spent eight months mapping the surface of the Moon.
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<p>Robert McCall took all of us to outer space.</p>
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A crew member on Air Force One for almost 20 years, Joe Chappell has seen it all.
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Photographer Eric Curry shows how he made our March 2010 cover.
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In the Museum: A Wright Relic Surfaces
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U.S. Marine aviators to Malaysian MiG pilots: Show us what you got.
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