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Bill Gordon, Father of the Arecibo Observatory

William Gordon, the Cornell University engineer who dreamed up the world's largest dish antenna, died this week at the age of 92. His recollections of the Arecibo Telescope's early days were included in a story that ran in our October 1997 issue, not long after the observatory was upgraded with new...

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The Astronaut Olympics

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Shuttle Silhouette

<p>And a rich pallette of atmospheres.</p>

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Confusing the Means and the Ends

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Getting Closer

<p>Falcon 9 prepares to spread its wings.</p>

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A Diving Rate

The United States Parachute Association has released the good news that 2009 marked the lowest skydiving fatality rate for one year in almost half a century: 16 deaths in nearly three million jumps by over 32,000 USPA members at 220 drop zones across the U.S. Of those three million, 400,000 were by...

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And Now, Starring the Sun

Quick, what's the most photogenic object in our solar system? Earth? Yeah, pretty. Saturn? Lovely rings. But for sheer drama and majesty, it's hard to beat pictures of the sun taken from spacecraft like SOHO and STEREO.Those satellites are about to be eclipsed (sorry) by the Solar Dynamics Observat...

A member of the 436th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron clears the snow around a C-5 Galaxy at Dover Air Force Base this morning. Five inches of snow fell overnight, and freezing rain followed by more snow is expected over the next 24 hours. (Photo by Lt. Col. Jon Anderson)

Cabin Fever

<p>Let's go flying! Not.</p>

Photo Date: 9-30-09 Location: Bldg. 8 Studio Subject: 2009 ASCAN Class Photographer: Robert Markowtiz

No Stimulus Plan for Astronauts

For NASA's flying corps, it looks like 1975 all over again.

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A Changing Pluto

<p>There's color way out there.</p>

The Price of Human Spaceflight

NASA’s now defunct Constellation program came with a $9 billion price tag. Is there a cheaper way?

An F-15 Eagle heads out to the range during a Red Flag exercise at Nellis AFB.

Combat U.

Learning the art of the dogfight at Red Flag.

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Half a Generation Ago

<p>When the shuttle program was just a teenager.</p>

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Are they lying...flat?

Last week, Air New Zealand announced in breathless language that they had finally solved the problem of sleeping in economy class. "Air New Zealand will transform international air travel later this year when it introduces revolutionary, Kiwi-designed lie-flat economy" seats, read a company press r...

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Vision Impaired

The release of the new proposed budget for NASA has unleashed a blizzard of news articles and commentary.

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When Asteroids Collide

Is that what's going on in this Hubble Space Telescope image?

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Sun Block

<p>SPF&nbsp;that money can't buy.</p>

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Live from the Space Station

As reality TV, let's just say it lacks drama. So far I haven't seen a single shouting match. But beginning today, you can watch live as NASA astronauts go about their daily business inside the International Space Station.The "Live From the ISS" link on NASA's space station web page shows you the vi...

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Russian Raptor

Russia's first "fifth-generation" fighter made its debut today on a snowy airfield in the country's far east.

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No take-backs!

Meteorite enthusiasts—c'mon, what's not to love about a meteorite?—are abuzz over the news that the "Lorton meteorite," which smashed through the roof of a medical office outside Washington, D.C., on January 18, is the chondrite du jour in a controversy over who owns it.Doctors Marc Gallini and Fra...

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