Air & Space Magazine

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Nice Save

<p>This camera's no point-and-shoot. Now, come see it for yourself.</p>

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Little, Big

Size matters. (Well, at least in the surveillance world.)And three projects under way take dimensions to whole new lengths. The LEMV (it stands for Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle) is a mammoth hybrid airship championed by the U.S. Army as part of a future fleet of reconnaissance vehicles...

Sightings: Hazy's Hits

A photo gallery of airplanes at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center.

Panther Paint Job

Watch a 57-year-old warbird go from Winona rags to Blue Angel royalty.

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An Aerial View of Geology

Photographer Michael Collier and his Cessna 180 bring North America's coastal landscapes into focus.

Gil Cohen: Aviation Artist

A new illustrated book brings aviation history to life.

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A Glimpse of Things to Come

A hundred years ago, the International Air Meet gave spectators a look into the future.

Bob Hope and actress Ann Jillian entertain sailors and shipyard workers on the USS Forrestal in 1984.

Have Jokes, Will Travel

Backstage stories from Bob Hope’s USO tours.

NASA mission managers monitor the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis from firing room four of the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, Cape Canaveral, FL. Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began the 11-day STS-129 mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle will transport spare hardware to the outpost and return a station crew member who spent more than two months in space. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Number Six...

<p>...in the countdown to the shuttle's retirement.</p>

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The Sub of All Fears

Workers at the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory announced on November 12 that through the use of submersibles, they had located at 2,600 feet two Japanese submarines that the U.S. military had scuttled off Oahu in 1946 after post-war assessment. One, the I-14, was designed to carry two Aichi M6A...

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A Rainbow on the Moon

Five weeks ago a crater from the LCROSS impact formed on the Moon.

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As the World Turns

Europe's Rosetta spacecraft took these spectacular views of a crescent Earth last week during its final close fly-by. The first frame starts at a distance of 683,000 miles. The last was taken from 198,000 miles.

Light Sails and Laser Beams

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Water on the Moon, For Real

Congratulations and apologies are due. The LCROSS team, who endured much grumbling  from Internet viewers after last month's crash into the moon failed to produce a big visible plume, is reporting what they say is clear evidence of water in a lunar crater. Not just a thimbleful, either—at least 24 ...

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And Now, Apollo 11

<p>Enjoy this bird's-eye view.</p>

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Here Comes Rosetta...Again

You must need patience to work on Europe's Rosetta comet mission. Launched in 2004, the spacecraft won't arrive at its main destination, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, until 2014. That's longer than New Horizons is taking to get to Pluto. The reason is that it requires a lot of energy to meet up ...

India's Reincarnated Aircraft Carrier

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600 and Counting

<p>Atlas really does carry the world on its shoulders.</p>

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Video: Ares 1-X, All the Way to Splashdown

Check out how good the camera technology has gotten for tracking a rocket booster all the way to 150,000 feet and back to the ocean. This high-definition video was taken during NASA's Ares 1-X launch on October 28, 2009, with a gyro-stabilized camera on board a Cessna Skymaster purring along at 12,...

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A Moonwalker Views His Old Stomping Grounds

Having settled into a new, lower orbit just 31 miles above the lunar surface, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently passed over the Apollo 17 site.We emailed moonwalker Harrison Schmitt, the Apollo 17 lunar module pilot and the only geologist—the only scientist—to have walked on the moon, and a...

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