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Flight Over the Hudson

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Comin' atcha

<p>White, red, low, straight, and fast.</p>

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Cosmic hoo-Ray

<p>Nature does particle accelerators better than humans can.</p>

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Test pilots aren't as much fun as fighter pilots

...or so thought Gemini/Apollo astronaut (and former test pilot) Michael Collins, as quoted in the 1970 book, First on the Moon: I like fighter pilots. I really do. They're good guys. As a group, I like them better than I like any other group. They're very independent people. They're not just talke...

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First, Nail Down the Mission

Why are we going to the moon?

Australia at night, as seen by a military weather satellite. That's Perth in the lower left corner.

Did Australians light signal fires for the astronauts?

And would they have been visible from space?

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Wheels or Wings?

<p>Maybe this little guy will drive/fly one.</p>

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Coast-to-coast, dawn-to-dusk, in 1924

Lieutenant Russell Maughan, a Utah-born Army pilot, winner of the Distinguished Service Cross in World War I, and holder of the world aerial speed record in 1923, tried twice that year to become the first person to fly cross-country in a single day. Both times he failed, brought down by a clogged g...

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A Marriage Made in Microgravity

In the March 2008 issue, we published "High Fashion," which chronicled the state of the art in  orbital couture, including "a dress that looked like a giant upside-down shredded coffee filter." Last Saturday, high over Florida, bride Erin Finnegan, wearing Eri Matsui's zero-G wedding gown, exchange...

Vi Cowden during her service with the WASP in the 1940s.

We Represented All Women

During World War II, the WASP proved that an airplane couldn’t tell the difference between a male and female pilot.

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Fire Breather

<p>Plenty of clouds, natural and rocketmade.</p>

Alphonsus crater taken by Ranger 9 Spacecraft, March 24, 1965.

The 50 Most Interesting Places on the Moon

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter scouts locations for future visits

Grumman workers pose with one of their lunar modules (LM-12) at the company's plant in Bethpage, New York, May 1971.

Apollo’s Army

It took 400,000 people, working under extreme pressure, to reach the moon in 1969. Like any army, they suffered casualties.

090506-F-5136C-006 A Proteus aircraft flies over Southern California carrying the Global Hawk variant of the new Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program radar. An Electronic Systems Center organization, the 851st Electronic Systems Group, has recently reached a key flight milestone for MP-RTIP by completing Radar System Level Performance Verification on two modes. Program officials aim to turn the sensor over to Global Hawk Air Force 18, the service's Block 40 test bed. (Courtesy photo)

Proteus

<p>Not your average mother ship.</p>

Earhart in an Electra cockpit, c. 1936.

The Day Amelia Earhart Became Famous

Celebrating the first woman to fly across the Atlantic

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Human spaceflight review gets underway

The most important review of NASA space policy since the Columbia accident investigation kicks off today with its first public hearing. Watch it live on NASA Television.

IDL TIFF file

Ring Traveler

<p>Talk about making waves.</p>

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The 500th person in space

Next month, when space shuttle Endeavour arrives in orbit to begin its 16-day space station construction mission (Note: The launch has been postponed to July 11), Chris Cassidy might feel more than the usual satisfaction. On his first shuttle flight, the former Navy SEAL, who wasn't even born when ...

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Early Women Aloft

<p>Raymonde de Laroche flew higher than the rest.</p>

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The second age of lunar exploration is about to begin

Despite what you've read, NASA doesn't really have a moon program. Not yet. But it will as of next Thursday. That's the day the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is scheduled to launch on a year-long (at least) mission to send back our best pictures of the moon since astronauts stopped visiting there a ...

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