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The winning-est Bearcat in air racing steps up once more to the starting gate.
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Above & Beyond: Canadian Helicopter Force, Afghanistan
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<p>And other Halloween things with wings.</p>
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While there are still 105 days until the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, the Olympic Torch Relay has already begun.Some 12,000 people will participate in the relay, which runs from October 30, 2009 to February 12, 2010 (the longest relay in Olympic history). The relay part...
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What's cool about the universe is that if you stare at nothing long enough, you'll see something big. That's what scientists have done with the Hubble Space Telescope a few times, creating the enchanting Hubble Deep Field images with swarms of galaxies that have opened our eyes to the immensity of ...
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No, it's not a disaster. It's a world record.
Two years ago, then-NASA Administrator Mike Griffin got into trouble by appearing to censor the results of a pilot survey that reportedly showed a higher than expected number of airplane accidents and near-accidents. Some accused NASA of squelching the truth to protect the airline industry. Congres...
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<p>Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spies on history.</p>
Score one for the rocket engineers.To quote Ed Mango, the launch director for today’s Ares I-X rocket test, his team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center did a “frickin’ fantastic” job on their first outing, which gathered data for the designers of NASA’s proposed Ares 1 crew launcher. It appears the eng...
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The scrub of today's Ares I-X launch, now scheduled for 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, October 28, is a good reminder of all that can go wrong when launching a new rocket. But the problems that led to today's scrub didn't involve any of the vehicle's technologies, unless you include a lanyard trying to pull o...
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Remote-controlled drones are commonplace over today’s battlefields, playing an important role in U.S. air superiority. But one of the first military uses of a robot is almost completely forgotten—the story of “Boilerplate,” part of the U.S. Army’s 1st Aero Squadron. Wait—you've never heard of Boil...
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The science team of the Japanese Kaguya mission have just published a paper claiming to have found an opening to a cave on the Moon.
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<p>And no red-eye.</p>
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A hundred years ago today, the U.S. military got its first pilot. On October 26, 1909, Frederick E. Humphreys, a 26-year-old Lieutenant with the Army Signal Corps, soloed for the first time in a Wright Flyer at College Park, Maryland, under the watchful eye of no less an instructor than Wilbur Wrig...
The Near-Earth Object office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports on an October 8 fireball over Indonesia, with a link (below) to a local TV news story.Fireballs are dramatic, but not as rare as you'd think. An object this size (about 10 meters in diameter) comes along every few years, on av...
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They may well be. But don't look for them anytime soon.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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What was thought to be a lock of Amelia Earhart’s hair, on display at a Cleveland museum, is merely thread. In mid-September, the International Women’s Air and Space Museum included in its e-newsletter to IWASM members an explanation of the misunderstanding: Last week we reported that a sample of h...
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The grandson of Amelia Earhart's photographer will carry her scarf higher than she ever did—into orbit.
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When did cosmonauts get so hip?
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