Air & Space Magazine

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Nine On Fire

<p>Falcon 9 proves it's ready for the big show.</p>

The First Parachute Jump

Garnerin took the leap over Paris, in 1797.

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Video: Space Station Flyover

On the day of the LCROSS lunar impact, a NASA ground camera normally used to track space shuttle launches caught this video of the International Space Station passing over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Here's how to see the station for yourself, from your own backyard. (Video: NASA)

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Big Foot Was Here

There's no shortage of meteorites that have slammed into our planet since its creation. The vast majority of the craters they've left have eroded away or slowly sunk into the Earth through the process of subduction. Still, the Earth Impact Database, the list of confirmed impact craters, maintained ...

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Oprah'd

<p>But he's a natural in front of the crowd.</p>

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Ares I-X, One Week and Counting

NASA has a new rocket on the launch pad for the first time in almost 30 years.The Ares I-X, the first test of the new Ares rocket design, is scheduled for October 27 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This first flight is meant to demonstrate control and staging of the Ares 1 crew launcher, ...

Surveyor 1 photographed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, 2009.

1966: The (Real) First Moon Landing

Surveyor 1 is still sitting pretty on the lunar surface

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Mad Dash

<p>Tex and Dix's excellent adventure.</p>

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Stovepipes Aloft

<p>It was one of many special shapes this year.</p>

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They're Relieved on Nibiru, Too

If you know children who are sick with worry about the supposed end of the world in 2012, here's the antidote: a six-page brief by NASA Ames Research Center astrobiologist David Morrison explaining why the whole Mayan calendar scare is a load of nonsense.The doomsday scenario, in case you hadn't he...

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The Brevity Thing

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Richard Whitcomb (1921-2009)

If Richard Whitcomb wasn't the most important aerospace engineer of the past 50 years, he was certainly on the short list. The veteran of NASA's Langley Research Center died on Tuesday at the age of 88. Read about his contributions to aeronautics here, or watch a NASA-produced video at this link.By...

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World Record

<p>A hundred and eight is great.</p>

The LCROSS impact site seen from LRO.

LCROSS: Mission to HYPErspace

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Long Haul

<p>On only three engines.</p>

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King Ring

Just when you thought Saturn's ring situation couldn't get any cooler than the recent equinox photos by Cassini, make way for the mega-ring. Astronomers Anne Verbiscer, Michael Skrutskie, and Douglas Hamilton just announced that they've discovered a fantastically huge ring around Saturn. Their tool...

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The Coming Crash

Friendly warning: Do not be in the moon's Cabeus Crater tomorrow morning. At 7:31 eastern time, a giant, two-and-a-half ton empty rocket stage will come crashing down from the sky at 1.5 miles a second. Four minutes later, another, smaller spacecraft will hit near the same spot. What the...? Ahh, i...

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Walk This Way

24,000 feet over the Atlantic

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Channel Crosser

<p>France on the wing.</p>

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Alfred Nobel's rocket camera

Alfred Nobel, the Swedish millionaire who originated the world's most prestigious science prizes, was also a compulsive tinkerer and filer of patents. Among the fields that caught his interest was rocketry, perhaps not surprising for the man who invented dynamite.Nobel wasn't the first to think of ...

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