Air & Space Magazine

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Asteroid Insurance

Remember we told you the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) would be good at spotting near-Earth asteroids?Well, it is. And it has.Here (the red dot at center) is WISE's first find, a half-mile-wide chunk of rock called 2010 AB78, currently about 98 million miles from Earth. It's no threat,...

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Relief Ramping Up

<p>An airport busier than it's ever been.</p>

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No More A-Roving

NASA’s Spirit rover goes into survival mode on Mars.

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Splash of Color

<p>The view doesn't get any better.</p>

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Sound Barrier Buster

On August 16, 1960, U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger stepped out of the gondola of a balloon at 102,800 feet above New Mexico wearing a pressure suit. In the thin air, he accelerated to 614 miles an hour in free fall before denser atmosphere slowed his plunge to a speed that allowed him to open...

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Have We Forgotten What Exploration Means?

British Airways Boeing 747 with winglets.

Lasers High and Low

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Beyond LEO - Flexible Path Revisited

Students, wearing parachutes, preflight an endless lineup of Stearmans.

Oldies and Oddities: Tinseltown’s Training Base

Oldies and Oddities: Tinseltown’s Training Base

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Titan's Shadow

<p>Compared to Saturn, not really titanic.</p>

Sorry about the delay, folks. A Pan Am flight attendant circa 1970.

The First Jumbo Jet Passengers

Everything in the hangar is on wheels, such as a cockpit simulator, center, and McBurney, to its right.

Restoration: Connecticut's State Warbird

What World War II fighter was a product of the Nutmeg State?

The Gift of Art

A recent donation by Michael and Maureen Harrigan helps the Museum fulfill its mission.

100119-N-8366W-067 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Jan. 19, 2010) Medical professionals aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) treat a six-year-old Haitian boy in the casualty receiving room aboard the 1,000-bed hospital ship. The boy transferred to Comfort by helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) for treatment for an injury to his bladder and a hip fracture during an earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan 12. The boy is in the intensive care unit aboard Comfort in stable condition. Comfort is supporting Operation Unified Response, a joint operation providing humanitarian assistance to Haiti. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Timothy Wilson/Released)

Air to the Rescue

<p>The Navy's Military Sealift Command, saving lives one at a time.</p>

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"No tire-kickers"

So warns Pride Aircraft in its advertisement offering a pair of Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker Cs for sale. No "aircraft dreamers," either. So you'll have to be content to just read it and weep, or drool, but please, not on your moisture-adverse keyboard. Pride, which restores and sells what you might call "...

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Ka-boom

At the recent American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington D.C., astronomers Peter Garnavich of the University of Notre Dame and Alex Filippenko of the University of California at Berkley described a whopping stellar explosion called Y-155. It started out as a Humpty Dumpty of a star, about ...

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Winter Storm Watcher

<p>The Gulfstream IV channels its inner weatherman.</p>

A U-2 assigned to the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing taxis down the runway at an air base in Southwest Asia Dec. 30, 2009, after completing a mission. The U-2 provides high-altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance, day or night, in direct support of U.S. and allied forces. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jenifer H. Calhoun)

Timeless

<p>The U-2 keeps going, and going, and...</p>

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"How Can We Help?"

The aviation community has responded to the Haiti earthquake with tremendous resolve, so much so that the National Business Aviation Association and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association have established on their Web sites ongoing advisories on how pilots and aircraft owners can best serve the...

STS-129 Mission Specialist Leland Melvin speaks to students at the Howard University Middle School of Math and Science, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, on the campus of Howard University in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)

You Like Math and Science?

<p>Why not consider a career as an astronaut?</p>

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